Nicole Scherzinger Sings Pussycat Dolls Hit ‘Buttons’ with “Sunset Blvd.” Cast at Broadway Bares (Exclusive Video)

NEED TO KNOW

• Nicole Scherzinger hit the stage at Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out in New York City on Sunday, June 22.

• She performed “Buttons” with her Sunset Blvd. costars using original Pussycat Dolls choreography

• Video from the number is being debuted by PEOPLE exclusively

Nicole Scherzinger gave audiences at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City a taste of nostalgia on Sunday, June 22.

The Tony Award winner made a surprise appearance at the 34th annual Broadway Bares fundraiser, performing the 2006 Pussycat Dolls hit “Buttons” alongside her costars from Jamie Lloyd’s acclaimed revival of Sunset Blvd.

PEOPLE has exclusive video of the sultry number, which featured Scherzinger doing what she called the “original Dolls choreography” with ensemble members Olivia Lacie Andrews, Giuseppe Bausilio, Brandon Mel Borkowsky, Hannah Yun Chamberlain, Cydney Clark, E.J. Hamilton, Sebastian Martinez, Jimin Moon, Justice Moore and Rixey Terry.

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She also changed up the lyrics to the tune at one point, spinning the disc at the center of her Tony while singing, “Baby can’t you see? / How this Tony is spinning on me / and the heat coming from this B / I’m about to blow, I don’t think you know.”

Dressed in a sheer black catsuit with sparkling fringe, Scherzinger, 46, looked fabulous and didn’t miss a beat as she belted her way through the tune.

“Happy Pride, baby” she said, posing with her cast mates at the end of the performance.

Broadway Bares is one of Broadway’s most beloved benefits, and is a cornerstone of New York’s theater community. Created in 1992 by Tony-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots, La Cage aux Folles), the event blends burlesque, theater and pure showbiz spectacle to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a leading industry-based HIV/AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization.

Since its humble beginnings as a spontaneous late-night strip show at a New York City bar, Broadway Bares has grown into a full-scale production featuring elaborate costumes, themed choreography, celebrity cameos and dozens of Broadway performers who bare (almost) all in the name of a good cause.

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This year’s show — titled Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out — presented a Wizard of Oz-inspired story, and featured more than 200 dancers, including leads Ehizoje Azeke, Tony d’Alelio (Gypsy), Michael Graceffa (Death Becomes Her), Brandon Gray (Amazon Prime’s Étoile), Amber Jackson (The Wiz), recording artist Mila Jam, Tyler Jimenez (Frozen), Kolton Krouse (Death Becomes Her), Amy Laviolette (Funny Girl), Mark Mackillop (national tour of Anastasia), Samantha Pollino (The Great Gatsby), Michael Pugliese, MiMi Scardulla (Cabaret), Jaquez Sims (Bad Cinderella) and Preston Taylor (The Great Gatsby).

Among the special guests? Tony Award winner André De Shields (Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Hadestown), Tony winner J. Harrison Ghee (Some Like It Hot), Bradley Gibson (The Lion King), Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita (Gypsy), Tony winner Alex Newell (Shucked), RuPaul’s Drag Race vet Peppermint (Head Over Heels) and Scherzinger’s fellow 2025 Tony winner Jak Malone (Operation Mincemeat).

Kellen Stancil, a Broadway Bares veteran and resident dance supervisor for the national tour of The Lion King, returned to direct alongside associate director Paula DeLuise and assistant director Savannah Joy Cobb. Mitchell and Nick Kenkel, a longtime Broadway Bares director and performer, executive produced.

In addition to Stancil, DeLuise and Cobb, choreography came from Mike Baerga, Marie Rose Baramo, Phil Colgan, Armando Farfan Jr., Billy Griffin, Reed Luplau, Sarah Meahl, Justice Moore, Rachelle Rak, Michael Anthony Sylvester and Marcus Williams.

Final donations are still being counted, but the 33rd edition of Broadway Bares topped the $2.4 million mark for the first time in its history. As of 2024, more than $28 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS from the benefit.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS helps those living with HIV/AIDS, and also benefits essential social service programs and health initiatives across the country. They’re also a major supporter of the social service programs at the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), including The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, the HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative.

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