live performance Michelle Williams devours new theatre role coming to Broadway!

[LesFleur]

https://deathbecomesher.com/

 

Currently playing in Chicago and heading to Broadway this fall.

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/theater/death-becomes-her-broadway.html

 

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Death Becomes Her' Review: Promising Pre-Broadway Musical Makes for a Campy Improvement on the Cult Film

A more-than-respectable entry in the endless parade of movies-to-musicals, this genuinely funny, effervescently performed pre-Broadway take on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis dark comedy "Death Becomes Her" has a better, and more sympathetic, understanding of the female vanity and rivalry at its core — and their underlying camp qualities — than the original film ever did. Going for the camp jugular brings risks, but lead performers Megan Hilty("Smash," "9 to 5: The Musical") and Jennifer Simard("Once Upon a One More Time," "Company") put forth the teamwork, timing, and ribald titillation to make it work.

Originally starring Meryl Streep as a fading movie star, Goldie Hawn as her bookish, lifelong frenemy, Bruce Willis as the plastic surgeon they fight over, and Isabella Rossellini as the purveyor of a magic potion that promises eternal youth, the film, written by Martin Donovan and David Koepp, fell apart soon after a flurry of spectacular special effects depicting bodily damage (a spinning head, a giant shotgun hole) that demonstrated the potential pitfalls, and black humor, of immortality combined with physical catastrophe.

 

Book writer Marco Pennette (showrunner on "Ugly Betty") makes many smart choices in this adaptation, starting with Michelle Williams (still most famous for her time with Destiny's Child) in the Rossellini role, singing to us that, "I have a secret you would die for." Dressed in a glam black gown with a stand-up collar worthy of Cruella DeVille, she arrives surrounded by a bevy of scantily clad dancers. She'll amusingly appear in diva-appropriate get-ups (from designer Paul Tazewell) throughout the show as things go wrong with our leads, who crave beauty and one-upmanship enough to swallow the potion that keeps wrinkles away but doesn't protect the body from external damage. 

 

 

Edited May 22 by LesFleur

[SoldierofLove]

Omg!!! I need to see this!!!

 

 

[Yog]

Death Becomes Her has a musical adaptation!!  I'm definitely seeing this, love love this movie 

[RussianRoulette]

A vocalist! 

[Onyxmage]

Oh my god she plays the potion lady? slay! Give her the Tony!

[UnanimousBB16]

She looks and sounds great.