Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the beloved 1992 horror-comedy Death Becomes Her is headed to the stage with a brand new musical adaptation, Deadline reports this afternoon.
Deadline writes in their report, “the world premiere of Death Becomes Her will run at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre from April 30 – June 2, 2024.”
Megan Hilty (Wicked, TV’s Smash) stars as the character “Madeline Ashton” alongside Jennifer Simard (Company, Once Upon A One More Time) as “Helen Sharp.”
“Death Becomes Her follows actress Madeline Ashton and author Helen Sharp as they experiment with a youth-and-beauty potion that also grants eternal life.”
Check out a teaser trailer for the musical adaptation below.
“The musical comedy features an original score by Noel Carey and Julia Mattison and book by Marco Pennette. Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies) directs and choregraphs. The design team for includes Derek McLane (Sets), Paul Tazewell (Costumes), Justin Townsend (Lights), Peter Hylenski (Sound...
Deadline writes in their report, “the world premiere of Death Becomes Her will run at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre from April 30 – June 2, 2024.”
Megan Hilty (Wicked, TV’s Smash) stars as the character “Madeline Ashton” alongside Jennifer Simard (Company, Once Upon A One More Time) as “Helen Sharp.”
“Death Becomes Her follows actress Madeline Ashton and author Helen Sharp as they experiment with a youth-and-beauty potion that also grants eternal life.”
Check out a teaser trailer for the musical adaptation below.
“The musical comedy features an original score by Noel Carey and Julia Mattison and book by Marco Pennette. Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies) directs and choregraphs. The design team for includes Derek McLane (Sets), Paul Tazewell (Costumes), Justin Townsend (Lights), Peter Hylenski (Sound...
- 9/5/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The stage musical adaptation of the 1992 film comedy Death Becomes Her will make its pre-Broadway debut in Chicago this spring, producers announced today.
Starring Tony nominees Megan Hilty as “Madeline Ashton” (Meryl Streep in the film) and Jennifer Simard as “Helen Sharp” (Goldie Hawn in the movie), the world premiere of Death Becomes Her will run at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre from April 30 – June 2, 2024.
Check out the teaser trailer for the production below.
The musical comedy features an original score by Noel Carey and Julia Mattison and book by Marco Pennette. Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies) directs and choregraphs. The design team for includes Derek McLane (Sets), Paul Tazewell (Costumes), Justin Townsend (Lights), Peter Hylenski (Sound), and Paul Kieve (Illusions).The Chicago staging is produced by Broadway In Chicago and Universal Theatrical Group.
Based on the Universal Pictures...
Starring Tony nominees Megan Hilty as “Madeline Ashton” (Meryl Streep in the film) and Jennifer Simard as “Helen Sharp” (Goldie Hawn in the movie), the world premiere of Death Becomes Her will run at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre from April 30 – June 2, 2024.
Check out the teaser trailer for the production below.
The musical comedy features an original score by Noel Carey and Julia Mattison and book by Marco Pennette. Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies) directs and choregraphs. The design team for includes Derek McLane (Sets), Paul Tazewell (Costumes), Justin Townsend (Lights), Peter Hylenski (Sound), and Paul Kieve (Illusions).The Chicago staging is produced by Broadway In Chicago and Universal Theatrical Group.
Based on the Universal Pictures...
- 9/5/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Great Scott! Over seven years after the musical adaptation of Back to the Future was announced, it’s finally ready to go and will premiere in 2020! After seven years of radio silence on the project I never thought it would actually happen, but here we are.
Co-writer and director of the original film Robert Zemeckis is involved with the musical as well as co-writer and producer Bob Gale and the movie’s composer, Alan Silvestri. It will be directed by Tony winner John Rando (Urinetown, On the Town) and it will feature a score by Glen Ballard (Jagged Little Pill) along with Silvestri. The show also promises to include memorable musical moments from the movie, such as "The Power of Love" and "Johnny B. Goode."
The show will star Olly Dobson (Bat Out of Hell and Matilda) as Marty McFly. Additional casting, including for the role of Dr. Emmett Brown,...
Co-writer and director of the original film Robert Zemeckis is involved with the musical as well as co-writer and producer Bob Gale and the movie’s composer, Alan Silvestri. It will be directed by Tony winner John Rando (Urinetown, On the Town) and it will feature a score by Glen Ballard (Jagged Little Pill) along with Silvestri. The show also promises to include memorable musical moments from the movie, such as "The Power of Love" and "Johnny B. Goode."
The show will star Olly Dobson (Bat Out of Hell and Matilda) as Marty McFly. Additional casting, including for the role of Dr. Emmett Brown,...
- 5/20/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Well, a few things, maybe.
It’s not at all hard to understand why Harvey Weinstein turned to Diane Paulus to overhaul Finding Neverland, the musical based on Miramax’s 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp as Peter Pan creator J.M Barrie. Paulus brings a broad catholicity of taste to her work as artistic director of the non-profit American Repertory Theatre, and that wide-ranging sensibility has led to her own souped-up, physically dazzling revivals of Hair and Pippin, both of which moved to Broadway.
When a 2012 tryout in Leicester, England under the leadership of Rob Ashford was met with yawns, Weinstein sent Finding Neverland back to the drawing board. In addition to hiring Paulus, he replaced Allan Knee (who wrote The Man Who Was Peter Pan, the basis for the film) with James Graham as book writer. U.K. pop-music specialists Gary Barlow...
It’s not at all hard to understand why Harvey Weinstein turned to Diane Paulus to overhaul Finding Neverland, the musical based on Miramax’s 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp as Peter Pan creator J.M Barrie. Paulus brings a broad catholicity of taste to her work as artistic director of the non-profit American Repertory Theatre, and that wide-ranging sensibility has led to her own souped-up, physically dazzling revivals of Hair and Pippin, both of which moved to Broadway.
When a 2012 tryout in Leicester, England under the leadership of Rob Ashford was met with yawns, Weinstein sent Finding Neverland back to the drawing board. In addition to hiring Paulus, he replaced Allan Knee (who wrote The Man Who Was Peter Pan, the basis for the film) with James Graham as book writer. U.K. pop-music specialists Gary Barlow...
- 8/14/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
Great Scott!! Bttf.com have been given confirmation from Universal that Back to the Future The Musical is set to hit the stage to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the greatest movie ever made (I may be somewhat biased there!).
According to the information, music will include those favourites from the movie by Huey Lewis & The News that appear in Back to the Future Part II and Part III. According to the report, London-based producer Colin Ingram who worked on Ghost – The Musical and Steve Spielberg himself will be working to develop the show brought to us by Universal Stage Productions who worked on the likes of Wicked and Billy Elliot.
Here’s what we know:
It will be produced with Donovan Mannato and Cj E&M. The new musical will have a book by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale and Jamie Lloyd, and new music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard,...
According to the information, music will include those favourites from the movie by Huey Lewis & The News that appear in Back to the Future Part II and Part III. According to the report, London-based producer Colin Ingram who worked on Ghost – The Musical and Steve Spielberg himself will be working to develop the show brought to us by Universal Stage Productions who worked on the likes of Wicked and Billy Elliot.
Here’s what we know:
It will be produced with Donovan Mannato and Cj E&M. The new musical will have a book by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale and Jamie Lloyd, and new music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard,...
- 1/31/2014
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Only one melody is truly unchained in Ghost: The Musical — the doggedly cinematic, dizzyingly engineered stage-musical adaptation of the 1990 film — and it’s the one you already know by heart, the one composers Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard didn’t write. Their original songs are considerably less righteous and perhaps better described as “textures,” liquid crystal distillations that pass through us spectrally, leaving absolutely no residue, emotional or ectoplasmic. I call Stewart (a former Eurythmic) and veteran popsmith Ballard “composers,” but “producers” is closer to the spirit of the thing: This is really not music but production, which is keeping with Ghost’s gestalt: It’s the most impressively overproduced entity on Broadway, and there’s no small thrill in witnessing the technical prowess on display, even when it batters your retinas like timpani on Orff night, drowning out everything else. The latest old-fangled Tupacnology (courtesy of illusionist Paul Kieve...
- 4/24/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
The West End hit calls on Paul Kieve's powers: so does Scorsese's new film Hugo. Maddy Costa meets the master illusionist
Paul Kieve would be the first to admit there's something preposterous about what he does. He has spent the last 20 years creating live-action special effects for theatre and cinema – the kind of illusions Victorian magicians delighted in conjuring up for gullible audiences. Only a curmudgeon wouldn't be won over by the magic Kieve is weaving in London's West End at the moment. In Matilda, the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's story at the Cambridge theatre, he persuades you that a piece of chalk can write on a blackboard without the intervention of a human hand; and among a bevy of effects in Ghost the Musical, at the Piccadilly, is a letter that folds up by itself, not to mention a staggering trick in which the vaporous figure...
Paul Kieve would be the first to admit there's something preposterous about what he does. He has spent the last 20 years creating live-action special effects for theatre and cinema – the kind of illusions Victorian magicians delighted in conjuring up for gullible audiences. Only a curmudgeon wouldn't be won over by the magic Kieve is weaving in London's West End at the moment. In Matilda, the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's story at the Cambridge theatre, he persuades you that a piece of chalk can write on a blackboard without the intervention of a human hand; and among a bevy of effects in Ghost the Musical, at the Piccadilly, is a letter that folds up by itself, not to mention a staggering trick in which the vaporous figure...
- 11/29/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
The musical version of "Ghost" opened in London this summer and is now slated to arrive on Broadway next spring. The 1990 Best Picture contender featured an Oscar-winning performance by Whoopi Goldberg as the psychic who communciates with the spirit of Patrick Swayze for the grieving Demi Moore. Bruce Joel Rubin adapted his Oscar-winning original screenplay while Grammy winner Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard penned the tunes. Tony champ Matthew Warchus ("God of Carnage") will handle helming as he did with the London production that stars Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy as the doomed couple and Sharon D. Clarke as the sassy seeress. Monday's announcement did not mention casting but confirmed that the musical will open at a Nederlander theater in April. Rob Howell will design the sets and costumes while Hugh Vanstone will handle lighting, Jon Driscoll will do the projection design and Paul Kieve will recreate the well-re...
- 8/22/2011
- Gold Derby
Someone make it stop: The dazzling new musical, Ghost, based on the phenomenal multi-Oscar winning, box office-breaking film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, opens at the Piccadilly Theatre on 22 June 2011. A timeless story about the power of love in which Sam is trapped as a ghost between this world and the next trying to communicate with girlfriend Molly through a phoney psychic, in the hope of saving her from his murderer. A thrilling rollercoaster ride of romance, drama and suspense, Ghost features stunning new music and lyrics by music legends Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard (Writer of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror), and featuring the unforgettable Unchained Melody. Bruce Joel Rubin adapts his Oscar-winning screenplay for the stage. Directed by the multi-award-winning Matthew Warchus, designed by Rob Howell, and with extraordinary, magical stage effects by Paul Kieve, illusionist for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,...
- 10/13/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Paul Kieve, an illusionist who worked on the Prisoner of Azkaban film, has spoken to The Argus (http://www.theargus.co.uk/lifehealth/reallife/4089339.Working_grown_up_magic_for_Harry_Potter_and_the_ice_stars/) about his time on the third Potter set and how he ended up giving Dan Radcliffe private lessons. Explaining how he was employed by the film-makers, Kieve talks about the second director to work on the franchise and the audition process; ---Quote--- “Alfonso had a real interest in rougher forms of circus and theatre and didn’t want everything to be CGI. I was asked to do a presentation about what we could do with live magic, which they’d never thought about using before.” “I felt as if I was auditioning for all of magic – it was pretty nervewracking, and very strange, to have them captive for two hours.” ---End Quote--- Paul discusses the scenes he was involved with,...
- 2/7/2009
- by EmmaRiddle
- Snitchseeker.com
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