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Lempicka is officially open on Broadway and there was a Wicked reunion on opening night!

Eden Espinosa is back on Broadway!

Elton’s Prada has found its Devil: Vanessa Williams has been cast as Miranda Priestly in the upcoming West End production of the Elton John-Shaina Taub stage musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada.

disastrous new musical version of the Meryl Streep movie. At least not yet.Broadway insiders thought it was dead on arrival after opening to lukewarm-to-scathing reviews in Chicago last week from every major critic — The Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times.

Steven Oxman Taking an overly respectful and frankly miscalculated approach to its source materials — the 2003 roman à clef novel and the 2006 Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-starring film — the new musical version of “The Devil Wears Prada,” now trying out in Chicago ahead of a projected Broadway run, provides some serviceable entertainment but needs a hefty dose of guilty, edgy fun to boost its mild pleasures.At this stage in its development — having persevered mightily to reach its opening after enduring over 20 cases of COVID during rehearsals and previews — the show boasts an Elton John score that operates in too limited a register and a production from director Anna D. Shapiro (“August: Osage County”) that never quite decides between authentic glamor or a more theatricalized kind, resting right now in a merely semi-satisfying middle.

The Broadway-bound production of The Devil Wears Prada, The Musical is currently running in Chicago and the first photos have been released!

EXCLUSIVE: The pre-Broadway engagement of the Elton John-Shaina Taub musical The Devil Wears Prada is showing its fashion sense for the first time in character photos provided exclusively to Deadline.

The full cast for the upcoming pre-Broadway run of The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical has been announced!

The stage musical adaptation of NBC’s Smash is “alive and kicking,” says producer Neil Meron, and he and composer Marc Shaiman have the photos to prove it.

Mandy Moore, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Beth Leavel, Jessica Hecht and dozens of other actors are teaming up to talk about something rarely mentioned on stage: periods.“Period Piece” will consist of 36 monologues by 36 different playwrights performed over three different performances in April.Contributing playwrights include Sarah Ruhl, Theresa Rebeck, Ngozi Anyanwu, Quinn Fontaine, Kit Yan and Lauren Gunderson.

The Prom living their teenage dreams on Netflix. Who she plays: Dee Dee Allen, an ego-maniac Broadway star similar to (but not really like) Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minelli, Chita Rivera, and the woman who originated this role on Broadway, Beth Leavel.

While Broadway is currently experiencing its longest shut down to date due to the coronavirus outbreak, theater fans can still enjoy new productions through the “Streaming Musicals” online platform right from their homes.