Hilty & Simard to lead DEATH BECOMES HER in Chicago spring 2024; Broadway in the fall

Exciting! Hoping that Nicole Scherzinger is able to see this through to Broadway.

I think this is a dynamite cast. I hope they don’t get ditched for bigger names if this makes it to Broadway. I also could see both leading ladies in the opposite role. Maybe they can pull a Little Foxes?

Can anyone speak on the creative team? That’s what I’m more interested in. I looked them up, but I’m not familiar with any of their work.

Updated On: 4/11/23 at 12:52 PM

I squealed when I saw this! What a brilliant cast.

Noel Carey's music is awesome. He wrote an opening number for a hypothetical Hocus Pocus musical years back, there was a video of Bonnie Milligan (as Winnnie) singing the crap out of it (with Natalie Walker as Sarah I believe) at a concert of his at 54 Below. I don't know if it got taken down because its not popping up when I search Twitter now. But he's very talented. 

Julia Mattison performed in Godspell on Broadway but does a lot of comedy work, often in The Advent Carolers who have a few popular comedy music videos. 

Jordan Catalano said: "But who the hell are Zander Medly and Viola Van Horn? lol



I want to know who is playing Dakota, though. Casey Garvin should do it."

I'm assuming Viola is Lisle.

wonder how much they're planning to expand the Lisle role if they cast Nicole? 

Kad said: "Julia Mattison works with Joel Waggoner on a seasonal music comedy duo called The Advent Carolers, which has a cult following."

This is going to be a wonderfully weird show. I didn’t realize this was Julia of “Joel and Julia.”

It’s 30% mystique, 30% Isabella Rossellini, and 40% the shock of Isabella being funny unexpectedly. The fact that David Lynch’s ageless and slightly mysterious foreign muse has wonderfully deadpan comic chops and high camp styling is a revelation in the film. 
 

I’d have loved to see Sofia Vergara make her return to the stage in this one.

I wanna know how they heck they're gonna recreate/reimagine the visual effects of the film and all of the body stuff!

I’d rather not see another one of my favorite films be ruined by musical theater. 

Hilty, Simard, and Sieber?!  Not entirely sure how I feel about this being adapted, but those are 3 of my favorite performers today and I would kill to see this.

Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies…until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that’s to die for.

After one sip of Viola’s magical potion, Madeline and Helen begin a new era of life (and death) with their youth and beauty restored…and a grudge to last eternity.

Starring Tony Award® nominees Megan Hilty (Wicked, Smash) and Jennifer Simard (Company, Disaster!), Death Becomes Her, based on the classic 1992 film, is a drop-dead hilarious new musical comedy about friendship, love, and burying the hatchet…again, and again, and again.

Life’s a bitch and then you die. Or not!

https://deathbecomesherbroadway.com/



cadillac palace theatre

april 30 — june 2, 2024