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 (pictured) 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.
There’s no word on the casting yet, but expect some pretty heavyweight talent to fill out the story of Andy, the young journalism graduate who ends up taking a role at fashion magazine Runway, working for its terrifying editor-in-chief Miranda Priestley.
