TALK OF THE TOWN: A hell of a job for Sir Elton John trying to reunite Devil Wears Prada cast By Sarah Robertson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:23, 29 September 2024 | Updated: 01:41, 29 September 2024 e-mail View comments Sir Elton John is trying to reunite the original cast of The Devil Wears Prada movie for the opening night of his musical version in the West End. Invitations have been winging their way over to Hollywood, and now he and his fellow producers are waiting on RSVPs. ‘We don’t know if Meryl Streep is coming but the invitation is there,’ a source said.
‘I think Anne Hathaway will be coming.’ The show has its gala night at the Dominion Theatre on December 1, World Aids Day, with Sir Elton, who wrote the music, and his husband David Furnish attending. The stage version stars Vanessa Williams as terrifying editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly, the role Streep made famous, and Georgie Buckland as aspiring journalist Andy, first played by Hathaway.
Emily Blunt also starred as assistant Emily. The musical debuted in Chicago in 2022, and the cast are hoping it will next enjoy a New York run. At a Fortnum & Mason Salcombe Gin party, Georgie tells me: ‘We are hoping it will transfer to Broadway.
That is the aim, that it will go over there.’ Genuine designer clothes from 2005, when the action is set, are being used on the show – but my source tells me they will be kept under lock and key. ‘No expense is being spared on the show,’ they said.
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