That's Norma Desmond! That's Norma Desmond! This Halloween, it seemed like the most popular costume was Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd—or rather, Nicole Scherzinger's blood-soaked version of the character. This year, we had not one but two musical theatre actors dressed up as the tragic silent screen star: Rachel Zegler and Larry Owens. Plus, the entire front of house team at the St. James Theatre also donned the (now iconic) slip dress.
See their costumes below and scroll through the gallery to see what other Broadway stars dressed up as—ranging from Suffs' Hannah Cruz as Deadpool to The Outsiders' Sky Lakota-Lynch with a riff on the Best Musical winner and André De Shields taking out his original costume from The Wiz so that he could ride on a float for the NYC Village Halloween Parade.
Rachel Zegler as Norma Desmond
Larry Owens as Norma Desmond
Uzo Aduba as Eeyore
Marcia Marcia Marcia
Tracie Thoms as The Birds
Talia Suskauer as Holly Golightly
Stephanie J. Block as a Doritos bag
Sky Lakota-Lynch as Cherry from The Outsiders
Rob McClure as Dracula
Patti Murin as Sven from Frozen
McKenzie Kurtz as Snow White
Julie Benko as a Handmaid's Tale handmaid
Josh Gad as Abby Lee Miller
Hannah Cruz as Deadpool
Eric Anderson as Hyrule from Legends of Zelda
Di Di Romero as the Bride of Frankenstein
Donald Webber as a flight attendant
Brent Comer as Father Pat
Andrew Keenan-Bolger as Archie from Riverdale
Amber Ruffin as Neil deGrasse Tyson
André De Shields as The Wiz
Lupita Nyong'o as Storm from X-Men
Michael R. Jackson as Matthew Bennell in Invasion of The Body Snatchers