'The Devil Wears Prada, The Musical' is the next big musical to have its pre-Broadway opening in Chicago, directed by Anna D. Shapiro of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble.
NEW YORK — Pushing 76 years old, not that he looks remotely like it, Elton John is finally coming off the road.goodbye due to the pandemic and he’s said, many times now, that he now wants now to be home with his kids. “I don’t want to play live again,” he says over a Zoom call, “because it means I would have to travel.
Glossy fashion magazines like Vogue still had colossal influence, the fashion world not yet catering to instant influencers with iPhone 13s but to prestige publications with long lead times. Powerful editors still exhibited outsized power and a frisson of awe, even excitement, still attached itself to the scary, tyrannical, artistic boss. Interns and receptionists still huddled and swapped survival skills.
Taub, who created the musical “Suffs,” had been expected in the room that morning but she was nowhere to be seen. Too upset, someone says. Shapiro, shaking her head at the news, is trying to pull together a cast finding it difficult to focus on fashion or musicals or anything, really, but on a court hardly known for its fashion sense.
The cast soon climbs its way into Act 2. It’s not unusual at Broadway rehearsals to use skeleton versions of the costumes the actors will be wearing, but the ones in play in “Devil Wears Prada” are strikingly elaborate. That’s because everyone here clearly figured out that you couldn’t do “Devil Wears Prada” as a show without real fashion and that, with all due respect to costume designers, real fashion and theatrical design are not the same thing.
He’s taking a number of other risks. Although she has worked on Broadway several times , Shapiro has never before helmed a major musical like “Prada.” Clearly, she is having a good time, out of the crucible of the artistic directorship at a theater like Steppenwolf, which like some other ensemble theaters in Chicago has been beset by internal strife in the pandemic era.
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