Variety reports The Devil Wears Prada has been getting kicked around as a potential crossover for years, but they’ve finally booked two big names—Elton John and Paul Rudnick—to write the stage version.
For some reason, I still don’t associate Elton John with his work on Broadway scores, though he won a Grammy for The Lion King, a Tony for Billy Elliot, and no awards for Disney’s Aida, except the pleasure of saying he wrote the music for it. Rudnick, a playwright, regularly contributes to The New Yorker, and wrote the screenplay for In & Out.
Does the ten-year-old story of a young woman working her way up in the field of journalism by hanging coats still resonate today? What if there is an extended dance break, where she waltzes with a coat rack? As of now, there is no firm production timeline for the show.
