In 2022, we got an excellent Elton John musical: ‘Tammy Faye’, his boutique collaboration with Jake Shears and James Graham. You’d think a larger scale musical adaptation of the fabulous Meryl Street and Anne Hathaway-starring fashion industry screen satire would be an even more effortless fit – but ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ has had a more troubled gestation.
With lyrics by Shaina Taub and book by Kate Wetherhead, the pandemic-delayed delayed first production debuted in Chicago in the summer of 2022, but John deemed it unready and its original incarnation seems to have been shelved without ever making it to Broadway.
Good news for us, however: London has been chosen as the scene of the show’s relaunch, following a tryout run in Edinburgh, in a new production directed and choreographed by Broadway royalty Jerry Mitchell.
Vanessa Williams of Desperate Housewives fame will take on the role of Miranda Priestley, terrifying editor-in-chief at Vogue-like fashion magazine Runway, Georgie Buckland as her hapless PA Andy, plus Amy di Bartholomeo as Emioly and Matt Henry as Nigel.
