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Monday, November 10, 2025
Strike a Pose: Get an Expanded Look at The Devil Wears Prada Musical in London's West End
Playbill: The production opened December 5, 2024, and is currently selling tickets through September 26, 2026. See what critics had to say of the musical, directed and choreographed by Tony winner Jerry Mitchell, here. A cast album was released in September.
5 comments:
Max A
said...
I don’t think everything needs to be a musical. Stop with the adaptations please give us new work why is 80% of the crap on broadway an adaptation or a jukebox it kind of makes me sick!! I feel like we’re entering an era of regurgitated creative material and we have been for years. All the sequels, prequels, and live action remakes exist to fuel a swirling black hole of creative despair. If this DWP musical is BAD I’m calling it. We need original material. Also… “aspiring fashion journalist Andy Sachs?” holy “not at all the plot of the movie.” Maybe this was a change made to try and make her less of a “pick me” (which ALSO undermines the point of the movie, because I think her character arc is just.. Learning confidence.)
I’m back and just listened to part of the cast album. It sounds like a cat & jack commercial from 2017. I thought we were emulating high fashion? Also, there’s an easy way to emulate a fast-paced work environment through music: MAKE THE MUSIC FAST! L.
To me, this is just trying to leech off a little bit of the success of the Death Becomes Her musical. The movies are very similar (they even have the same main actress) and I bet they’re going to be done in the exact same way with campy, on the nose songs and glamorous costumes. I personally hate this. I am a person who LOVES campy movies. The Devil Wears Prada and Death Becomes Her are some of my favorite movies of all time, but I hate them on stage. There is no reason to adapt these movies to the stage other than that they’re movies with a cult following that producers can milk money out of. I would so much prefer to see new work coming out of broadway than another legally blond, death becomes her, and now the devil wears prada. And, when there is groundbreaking new work, stuff like this only overshadows it which is so frustrating.
Man I really wish this was a straight play and not a musical. It is such a good movie and I honestly think it would transfer well to stage but not as a musical. I cannot really verbalize why I feel this way but something about the thought of music being in it feels distracting and disconnected. I think it is interesting that when we take movies and move them to stage they are more likely to become musicals and you do not often hear about them becoming plays. I do think it is kind of intriguing that Elton John’s music is in it and I could see it fitting but again I do not think it is necessary. I like the photo in this and it looks awesome. Because I think it has potential for stage in general I will give it the benefit of the doubt as a musical but something about it feels wrong.
I saw The Devil Wears Prada in the West End last spring, and I thought that it was stunning! The visuals that this musical had are the best that I have ever seen! It is truly hard to put into words how impressed I was by this musical. In a show about fashion in the early 2000’s, it was so important to nail the costumes and they were absolutely on point! They sourced real designer outfits, which were cohesive to the overall design and looked amazing! The scenic elements were stunning too! I just could not believe how many massive pieces of scenery they had! It felt like the pieces never stopped coming. This created an amazing grand effect that this show requires! On top of all of the outstanding production elements, the performances from the actors were some of the best that I have ever seen. Vanessa Williams served as the ruthless Miranda, Amy Di Bartolomeo and Georgie Buckland were powerhouse vocalists as Andy and Emily respectively, and Matt Henry played a great Nigel! Elton John’s music took full advantage of everyone's talent, and left me amazed!
Dear god do we really need this? I sometimes enjoy when a video game becomes a movie because that way you can explore different aspects of the story and the mode changes how you interact and perceive the art. I cannot fathom this musical is going to improve upon ANYTHING the Devil Wears Parada did. Seriously who's funding this stuff? Is it really successful enough for a new household name to be dragged through the multi-media pointless adaptation hell?? When will it end? I’m so god damn sick of it. These spaces, this time, this FUNDING could be going to new plays and musicals that haven't been beat to death over and over again. The horse is bones and producers will beat them till dust if it means squeezing a little more money out of the brand. Looking for late-stage capitalistic canibalism in art? Look no further than modern Broadway.
5 comments:
I don’t think everything needs to be a musical. Stop with the adaptations please give us new work why is 80% of the crap on broadway an adaptation or a jukebox it kind of makes me sick!! I feel like we’re entering an era of regurgitated creative material and we have been for years. All the sequels, prequels, and live action remakes exist to fuel a swirling black hole of creative despair. If this DWP musical is BAD I’m calling it. We need original material. Also… “aspiring fashion journalist Andy Sachs?” holy “not at all the plot of the movie.” Maybe this was a change made to try and make her less of a “pick me” (which ALSO undermines the point of the movie, because I think her character arc is just.. Learning confidence.)
I’m back and just listened to part of the cast album. It sounds like a cat & jack commercial from 2017. I thought we were emulating high fashion? Also, there’s an easy way to emulate a fast-paced work environment through music: MAKE THE MUSIC FAST! L.
To me, this is just trying to leech off a little bit of the success of the Death Becomes Her musical. The movies are very similar (they even have the same main actress) and I bet they’re going to be done in the exact same way with campy, on the nose songs and glamorous costumes. I personally hate this. I am a person who LOVES campy movies. The Devil Wears Prada and Death Becomes Her are some of my favorite movies of all time, but I hate them on stage. There is no reason to adapt these movies to the stage other than that they’re movies with a cult following that producers can milk money out of. I would so much prefer to see new work coming out of broadway than another legally blond, death becomes her, and now the devil wears prada. And, when there is groundbreaking new work, stuff like this only overshadows it which is so frustrating.
Man I really wish this was a straight play and not a musical. It is such a good movie and I honestly think it would transfer well to stage but not as a musical. I cannot really verbalize why I feel this way but something about the thought of music being in it feels distracting and disconnected. I think it is interesting that when we take movies and move them to stage they are more likely to become musicals and you do not often hear about them becoming plays. I do think it is kind of intriguing that Elton John’s music is in it and I could see it fitting but again I do not think it is necessary. I like the photo in this and it looks awesome. Because I think it has potential for stage in general I will give it the benefit of the doubt as a musical but something about it feels wrong.
I saw The Devil Wears Prada in the West End last spring, and I thought that it was stunning! The visuals that this musical had are the best that I have ever seen! It is truly hard to put into words how impressed I was by this musical. In a show about fashion in the early 2000’s, it was so important to nail the costumes and they were absolutely on point! They sourced real designer outfits, which were cohesive to the overall design and looked amazing! The scenic elements were stunning too! I just could not believe how many massive pieces of scenery they had! It felt like the pieces never stopped coming. This created an amazing grand effect that this show requires! On top of all of the outstanding production elements, the performances from the actors were some of the best that I have ever seen. Vanessa Williams served as the ruthless Miranda, Amy Di Bartolomeo and Georgie Buckland were powerhouse vocalists as Andy and Emily respectively, and Matt Henry played a great Nigel! Elton John’s music took full advantage of everyone's talent, and left me amazed!
Dear god do we really need this? I sometimes enjoy when a video game becomes a movie because that way you can explore different aspects of the story and the mode changes how you interact and perceive the art. I cannot fathom this musical is going to improve upon ANYTHING the Devil Wears Parada did. Seriously who's funding this stuff? Is it really successful enough for a new household name to be dragged through the multi-media pointless adaptation hell?? When will it end? I’m so god damn sick of it. These spaces, this time, this FUNDING could be going to new plays and musicals that haven't been beat to death over and over again. The horse is bones and producers will beat them till dust if it means squeezing a little more money out of the brand. Looking for late-stage capitalistic canibalism in art? Look no further than modern Broadway.
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