It’s the pictures that got small.” Perhaps the pictures have always been too small, if they have no place for a woman like Nicole Scherzinger’s radiant Norma Desmond. In the Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard,

For despite many fascinating interventions by the director Jamie Lloyd and his technical team, and the fact that it is based on one of the greatest of movies, the musical remains too silly for words. In that sense, and others, Norma would have loved it.

At the St. James Theatre, Norma Desmond has morphed from deranged diva to sexy beast, from an object of creepy pity warbling emotional ballads of regret to an eroticized star at her sexual peak