‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Musical Coming To Broadway From Elton John And Paul Rudnick
By Jack Giroux/Jan. 27, 2017 7:30 am EST
Below, learn more about The Devil Wears Prada musical.
John and Rudnick is an exciting combo team for this musical. John is writing the music; Rudnick is writing the book and lyrics. Rudnick’s Broadway credits include I Hate Hamlet and The New Century, and he’s written such films as Sister Act, Addams Family Values, and the hilarious Kevin Kline comedy In & Out.
A timeline wasn’t announced for the musical, but Tony Award-winning producer Kevin McCollum, who worked on Hand to God, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and Rent, began developing The Devil Wears Prada musical over a year and a half ago.
John has plenty of experience on Broadway, having composed The Lion King and Aida, and winning a Tony Award for the latter in 2000. In a statement, the musician said (via Deadline):
Re-imagining The Devil Wears Prada for the musical theatre is super exciting. I’m a huge fan of both the book and the feature film and a huge aficionado of the fashion world. I can’t wait to sink my musical teeth into this hunk of popular culture.
To bring The Devil Wears Prada to the stage, we knew we needed to find artists as inimitable as the characters in the story. We needed artists whose work has run the gamut from music and publishing to drama and fashion. We could think of only two names: Elton John and Paul Rudnick. That’s all.
