Broadway-bound musical "The Devil Wears Prada," premiering in Chicago, tries a different tack with the story about a woman hired at a fashion magazine.
In a pre-Broadway Chicago tryout, “The Devil Wears Prada” musical features miscalculated costume design, a score lacking in magic and uneven direction. What’s more, the attempt to update the story for 2022 undercuts the time period so essential to both the book and film.
What did our critic think of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA at Nederlander Theatre? Haute mess. Fashion weak. Prêt-à-poor taste. I could go on with the fashion puns all day, but suffice to say THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, the new musical which opened Sunday in not quite ready for the runway in its current state.
The reason Lauren Weisberger’s memoir became famous was not just because of the juicy movie with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It’s because Weisberger could see that the thirst for power included herself.