{"id":128873,"date":"2024-11-22T17:47:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128873"},"modified":"2024-11-22T17:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:47:54","slug":"death-becomes-her-opens-on-broadway-starring-megan-hilty-and-jennifer-simard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128873","title":{"rendered":"DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>DEATH BECOMES HER comes to life on Broadway tonight as it celebrates its opening at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in a production starring\u00a0Tony Award nominees Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, and Grammy Award winner Michelle Williams. Did the critics fall under the spell of Broadway&#8217;s most glamourous new musical? Find out below!<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli, DEATH BECOMES HER features a book by Marco Pennette, and an original score by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DEATH BECOMES HER features scenic design by two-time Tony Award winner Derek McLane, costume design by Tony Award winner Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Tony Award winner Justin Townsend, sound design by Tony Award winner Peter Hylenski, hair and wig design by two-time Drama Desk Award winner Charles LaPointe, make-up design by Joe Dulude II, fight direction by Drama Desk Award winner Cha Ramos, with music supervision by Drama Desk Award winner Mary-Mitchell Campbell, orchestrations by three-time Tony Award winner Doug Besterman, music direction by Ben Cohn, dance &amp; music arrangements by Tony Award nominee Sam Davis, vocal arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Julia Mattison &amp; Noel Carey, music coordination by Kristy Norter, casting by Tara Rubin Casting, production stage management by Rachel Sterner, and general management by 321 Theatrical Management. Marcia Goldberg serves as Executive Producer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22122%22%20height=%22122%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/midlike-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nJesse Green, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/theater\/death-becomes-her-review-hilty-simard.html\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times:<\/a> I don\u2019t think the musical has to worry about that; no matter how many improvements it has made, it is stuck with the foundational problems of the film. But the chance to see two theatrical masterminds go at it for a few hours is sufficient justification for the effort. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if, in its next incarnation, the Lunt-Fontanne Theater became the Hilty-Simard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nJackson McHenry, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/theater-review-death-becomes-her-broadway-musical.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Vulture:<\/a> To delve into that sort of darkness more might be upsetting, and potentially less brand-friendly for Universal, but the surface level-focus of Death Becomes Her kept gnawing at me. It also stalls the show\u2019s second act. Once you have Madeline and Helen taking swings at each other\u2014and yes, shovel combat is never not funny\u2014the production has little new territory to cover, thematically or emotionally. The plot barrels on as the enthusiasm wanes, from both the audience and the performances. Sieber\u2019s character, the most obvious voice for a grounding rebuttal to Helen and Madeline\u2019s obsession with eternal youth, has a solo that\u2019s too silly by half, a duet with a talking paint can. Stuck in the mode of camp exuberance, Gattelli powers through the rest of the action by means of a chase sequence (echoes of Some Like It Hot, though not Nicholaw-level precise) toward an anticlimactic finale. As on film, Helen and Madeline end up as allies, each dependent on the other to patch up her body. They cruise, forever youthful, toward eternity, making fun of other people\u2019s funeral services. They leave us with a wink and meta-joke, a song about how they\u2019ll never have an ending, but if they did, it might go a little like this \u2026 The conceit\u2019s cleverly nipped and tucked, the work of fine theatrical plastic surgery, hard to dislike and ultimately\u2014as a medical examiner might say of these women\u2014without a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nBenjamin Lee, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2024\/nov\/21\/death-becomes-her-review-broadway\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian:<\/a> But, after a buzzy initial run in Chicago, Death Becomes Her has been reborn on Broadway as a rousing, raucously entertaining hit, the kind of big, box-ticking blockbuster that one can see sticking around for a long time (pre-opening, ticket sales were such that it already received an extension to the end of next summer).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22122%22%20height=%22122%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/midlike-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nCharles Isherwood, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/death-becomes-her-review-a-broadway-musical-megan-hilty-jennifer-simard-58c2761b\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal:<\/a> As the plot grows more ludicrous and convoluted, the fun peters out like a slowly deflating helium balloon sagging to earth. And if the show intended to make any pertinent commentary on the uselessness or dangerousness of chasing after one\u2019s vanishing youth, it is swallowed up in the glossy production. Ms. Hilty and Ms. Simard are sufficiently seductive performers to hold our attention and affection through their witty work. Their final duet, an anthem of ax-burying solidarity, \u201cAlive Forever,\u201d brings the show to a musically satisfying climax. But while the heroines may achieve eternal life, the musical itself is much closer to forgettable than immortal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nTim Teeman, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/review-death-becomes-her-is-the-most-fun-night-out-on-broadway\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Beast:<\/a> The relentless, deliciously played, perfectly directed hilarity of Death Becomes Her (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, booking through August 31, 2025) distinguishes this skillfully executed riot of a Broadway musical. Based on the 1992 movie starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis, the musical sees life-long frenemies Madeline (Megan Hilty) and Helen (Jennifer Simard) fight to beyond-death in their body-punishing and mangling struggles to stay young and beautiful, and to one-up each other.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nAdam Feldman, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/theater\/death-becomes-her-broadway-musical-review\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Out New York:<\/a> Death Becomes Her\u2019s deft score, by Broadway newcomers Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, gives the performers plenty of humor to play with, along with nicely overblown strains of mystery and grandeur when called for. The book by Marco Pennette, a veteran TV comedy writer, preserves key jokes from Martin Donovan and David Koepp\u2019s screenplay while adding solid zingers of his own\u2014when Madeline condescendingly suggests that Helen should change jobs, she notes that being a pharmacist is \u201clike being a doctor and a cashier\u201d\u2014and only minimal injections of filler. (Don\u2019t think gay audiencewon\u2019t notice when you crib a joke from Maggie Smith!) Pennette\u2019s most significant changes to the story, at the end of both acts, have the salutary effect of keeping the show\u2019s focus securely on the two main women. Sieber stops the show in a drunken and frantic second-act number, \u201cThe Plan,\u201d but in the end this Ernest is just not important.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nGreg Evans, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/death-becomes-her-broadway-review-1236182456\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline:<\/a> A perfect rejoinder to the ubiquitous Broadway Sucks These Days gripe about the too-many movie-to-stage adaptations has arrived at long last, and it\u2019s a simple three-word response: Death Becomes Her. A virtually perfect big-budget, broad-appeal musical comedy that improves in every way over the 1992 film, director-choreographer Christopher Gattelli\u2019s wildly entertaining vehicle for two of our best singer-actor-comedians on any stage today renders the movie-as-source snipe worthless.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nFrank Rizzo, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/legit\/reviews\/death-becomes-her-review-broadway-musical-1236216493\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety:<\/a> Everything in the musical is fantastically bigger and bolder, from Derek McLane\u2019s goth-meets-Hollywood-excess design to Paul Tazewell\u2019s fabulous costumes to Doug Besterman\u2019s lush orchestrations. Charles LaPointe\u2019s wigs are terrific, too. The tuneful score and witty lyrics are by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, making an impressive Broadway bow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nDalton Ross, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/death-becomes-her-review-cult-classic-full-camp-broadway-8747683\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Weekly:<\/a> The momentum during the two-hour and 30-minute runtime also does stall somewhat in the second act \u2014 perhaps gently reminding audiences that indeed not everything should last, or take, forever \u2014 yet eventually recovers with a welcomely recrafted ending. The new finish may lack the side- (and arm- and leg- and head-) splitting gag of the film, but offers a touching and terrifically funny send-off to our tragic love triangle of doom. Madeline and Helen may have faked their deaths, but we\u2019ll doubtlessly see them again. After all, the only thing more eternal than these brawling broads is the intellectual property that birthed them. Grade: B<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nJohnny Oleksinki, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/21\/entertainment\/death-becomes-her-review-claws-are-out-in-broadway-camp-fest\/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post:<\/a> Since Act 2 narratively does not have as much drive or emotion as the first, and the songs are still mush, Gattelli should have included even more body horror schtick. The Demi Moore film \u201cThe Substance\u201d is a lesson in how upping the gore ante can rev up a story. But whenever the material sags, like aging skin, its sensational stars inject the show with new vibrancy. Even if the musical doesn\u2019t have a discernible heartbeat, Hilty and Simard ensure \u201cDeath Becomes Her\u201d stays fun and fabulous.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nChris Jones, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/11\/21\/review-death-becomes-her-on-broadway-has-fun-frenemies-and-a-wacky-good-time\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Tribune:<\/a> \u201cDeath Becomes Her\u201d arrives on Broadway as a silly, campy, go-for-broke show that\u2019s filled with hearty laughs (especially in the stronger Act 1) and a pair of gutsy, zesty and highly skilled lead performances from Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard that land right where a good chunk of the Broadway-going public believe divas like these two should be landing. While looking fabulous. The aim here appears to have been to create a kind of pseudo-feminist, gayer version of \u201cThe Producers,\u201d and while those heights are not scaled, the Mel Brooksian template is enthusiastically employed, especially within Mattison and Carey\u2019s patter-heavy ditties and droll lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nFrank Scheck, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/nystagereview.com\/2024\/11\/21\/death-becomes-her-the-rare-screen-to-stage-musical-that-improves-on-the-original\/\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Stage Review:<\/a> The latest example is Death Becomes Her, which actually manages the neat trick of being superior to the 1992 fantasy film starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis. The musical adaptation, newly arrived on Broadway after a Chicago tryout, is a laugh riot from start to finish, featuring superb comic performances from its two female leads, a lavish physical production that actually reflects the astronomical (reportedly $31.5 million) production cost, and a book featuring more zingy one-liners than a Friars Club Roast. The only thing missing are memorable songs, but fortunately the show is so entertaining you\u2019ll find yourself not minding very much.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/dislike-button-icon.png\"\/>David Finkle, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/nystagereview.com\/2024\/11\/21\/death-becomes-her-1992-streep-hawn-film-musicalized-unbecomingly\/\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Stage Review:<\/a> Where Death Becomes Her never goes wrong is where Broadway musicals rarely falter: the design departments. It\u2019s these contributions that so frequently allow mediocre works to look like the millions of dollars the producers put up and hope to get back. Here, it\u2019s Tazewell buoying the vehicle along with set designer Derek McLane, lighting designer Justin Townsend, sound designer Peter Hylenski, Tim Clothier\u2019s illusions, and, definitely, hair and wig designer Charles LaPointe. They\u2019re worth their weight in gold\u2014or these days, cryptocurrency. OK, this is a musical, and when wishful-thinking folks decide to chase big moolah musical-wise, they usually understand the pursuit requires songs. This Death Becomes Her has \u2019em. Unfortunately, the Mattison-Carey score it boasts (?) resembles too many of the scores audiences presumably favor these days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nRobert Hofler, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/death-becomes-her-broadway-review\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wrap:<\/a> Marco Pennette\u2019s book gives Hilty all the grand-dame one-liners, but it\u2019s Simard who gets the more unexpected laughs with delightful line readings that take a second or two to register. The sharp dialogue is in perfect tune with Julia Mattison and Noel Carey\u2019s lyrics, and that duo\u2019s music, which is merely serviceable, manages not to get in the way of the characters and the story, which Pennette has made far less convoluted than its source material.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nKobi Kassal, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatrely.com\/post\/death-becomes-her-is-broadway-comedy-gold-review\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatrely:<\/a> Death Becomes Her is a smart, brilliant adaptation that honors the original without fighting too hard at making sure it recreates every moment from the film. It\u2019s clear the team has worked hard to put together one fun night of theatre, and boy do they deliver. I don\u2019t think I stopped smiling from the first downbeat to the final curtain call. It\u2019s high camp and Broadway heaven, need I say more?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nAustin Fimmano, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/reviews\/death-becomes-her-broadway-review\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Theatre Guide:<\/a> It\u2019s hard to follow the film&#8217;s leading ladies Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, but if anyone is up for it, it\u2019s Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard. Hilty bursts with star power as the glamorous and self-indulged actress Madeline Ashton, and Simard\u2019s dry delivery is hilarious in author Helen Sharp\u2019s meeker getup \u2014 and even better after she transforms into a femme fatale to show up Ashton. Christopher Sieber is the perfectly bumbling plastic surgeon Ernest Menville, who can\u2019t get a song in edgewise when Madeline and Helen are at their finest &#8211; though he manages to sneak away for a ludicrously funny song of his own in one of the campiest scenes of the show. Michelle Williams, a Broadway veteran and former Destiny\u2019s Child member, opens the show and is ever-present as the otherworldly Viola van Horn (based on Lisle von Rhuman from the film). Aloof in contrast to the hotheadedness of the main characters, with a voice to bring the house down, she is a fitting choice for a character offering eternal youth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nMichael Musto, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseacommunitynews.com\/2024\/11\/21\/review-death-becomes-her-is-a-diva-smackdown-musical-thats-camp-heaven\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea Community News :<\/a> Naughty double entendres are sprinkled throughout, with mentions of cum guzzling, giving head, and fingering that aforementioned hole\u2014you must believe me\u2014and there\u2019s also a fetching reference to Madeline having made it with her legs thrown wider than anyone, I mean higher than anyone. It\u2019s perhaps inadvertently hilarious that after the serum, Hilty looks pretty much the same as before, but for the most part, this is a lavish diva fest that, while not a classic, feels like just the kind of feelgood exercise in bad behavior that we need right now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nErin Strecker, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/culturesauce.com\/2024\/11\/21\/death-becomes-her-musical-broadway-review\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Culture Sauce:<\/a> This may be the one musical where you really might exit humming the set \u2014 but you\u2019ll also remember the rapier-sharp repartee between Hilty and Simard, who lean into the material\u2019s catty campiness with hilarious results. Simard\u2019s Helen isn\u2019t the only one who\u2019s busting a gut at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. In addition, Hilty\u2019s playfulness extends to her bio in the Playbill, where her credits are lifted directly from Streep\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 aside from a lone authentically Hilty TV credit, Smash, and the Streep-centric Instagram handle @ThisIsTotallyMegansRealBio. It\u2019s a deft touch for a show that defies expectations in its all-out assault on the funny bone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;padding:0;float:left;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>\nJonathan Mandell, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/newyorktheater.me\/2024\/11\/21\/death-becomes-her-broadway-review\/\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Theater:<\/a> \u201cDeath Becomes Her,\u201d a stylishly macabre Broadway musical comedy about a love\/hate triangle, has much the same plot, catty repartee, and even some of the same comically gruesome special effects as the 1992 Meryl Streep\/Goldie Hawn\/Bruce Willis movie on which it is based. Although not as starry a draw as their cinematic predecessors, Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard and Christopher Sieber \u2014 all Broadway favorites \u2014 do a fine job in the principal roles, and there are several memorable supporting players. But if I\u2019m being honest, one theater artist stood out for me: Paul Tazewell, the costume designer.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:300px;height:67px;background-color:#000;color:#fff;padding-left:6px;padding-right:6px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Opens On Broadway Starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard  Image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22123%22%20height=%22123%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" style=\"width:55px;margin-top:10px;float:right;margin-right:10px\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb89 src ng ngcb88\" class=\"ezlazyload\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/ezoimgfmt\/cloudimages.broadwayworld.com\/like-button-icon.png\"\/><br \/>Average Rating:<br \/>\n80.5%<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/article\/Photos-DEATH-BECOMES-HER-Opens-On-Broadway-Starring-Megan-Hilty-Jennifer-Simard-More-20241121\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEATH BECOMES HER comes to life on Broadway tonight as it celebrates its opening at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in a production starring\u00a0Tony Award nominees Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128873\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}