Lights, camera, and lethal attraction: Get Death Becomes Her tickets to see Tony Award nominees Megan Hilty (Noises Off) and Jennifer Simard (Company) star in this new musical comedy about fame, beauty, and deceit. Based on the hit 1992 film, this beloved, zany story now comes to Broadway.
See two divas in Death Becomes Her in New York, and we’re not just talking about legends Hilty and Simard: in the show, Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen, and Helen Sharp is a long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They’ve been the perfect frenemies…until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé. What follows is a lot of mayhem and drop-dead funny jokes and songs. Set an alert for tickets to Death Becomes Her on Broadway with TodayTix!
October 23rd, 2024
By: Marco Pennette
Songs by: Julia Mattison and Noel Carey
Director: Christopher Gattelli
Choreography: Christopher Gattelli
Cast list: Megan Hilty (as Madeline Ashton), Jennifer Simard (as Helen Sharp), Christopher Sieber (as Ernest Menville), Michelle Williams (as Viola Van Horn)
Sets: Derek McLane
Costumes: Paul Tazewell
Lighting: Justin Townsend
Sound: Peter Hylenski
Other info: Illusions by Rob Lake, hair and wig design by Charles LaPointe, makeup design by Joe Dulude II, fight direction by Thomas Schall, music supervision by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, orchestrations by Doug Besterman, dance and incidental music arrangements by Sam Davis, music direction by Ben Cohn
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Death Becomes Her is a campy musical based on the hit Hollywood film. In the musical version, Helen plots revenge against Madeline, who holds fast to her rapidly fading star. As if there wasn’t enough drama, Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that’s to die for, comes into their lives hawking a magical potion that restores the women to their original beauty. Naturally, there is a price to pay: living with a grudge that will last until the end of time. What could go wrong?
The cast brings together comedy icons and Tony Award nominees Megan Hilty (Wicked, Smash) and Jennifer Simard (Company, Disaster!), who perform alongside Christopher Sieber (Spamalot, Company) and Grammy Award winner Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child, Chicago). Coming to Broadway this fall, this new musical is a laugh-out-loud spectacle about friendship, frenemies, and fresh love — and the fresh hell of burying the hatchet, again, and again, and again.
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Death Becomes Her is at New York's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, which is located at 205 West 46th Street, New York, 10036.
Get Death Becomes Her tickets and see Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard face off on Broadway. Death Becomes Her the musical is based on the classic 1992 film.
The song list is not yet published, but expect “soaring duets,” per Variety, and lots of belting from two of Broadway’s most well-loved leading ladies.
Based on the 1992 film, Death Becomes Her features a book by Marco Pennette who is known for his TV credits, including Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. It also “features music and lyrics from the very talented newcomer team of Julia Mattison and Noel Carey,” per the Chicago Tribune. Expect “crowd-pleasing strengths, including a genuinely funny book and a swirling, retro, filmic score that features a knockout two-pronged 11 o’clock number for Hilty and Simard.”
Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli pulls double duty directing and choreographing this new musical.
An age recommendation has yet to be finalized, but all Broadway audiences regardless of show must be four and over.
The out-of-town tryout caused a splash. The Chicago Tribune wrote, “There’s a lush physical production in an old school, drape-heavy Producers-like mode,” plus “a stellar cast” and a style that is “PG-13 funny, alive and fearlessly old-school.”
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