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Elton John Says ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Musical “Not Ready” For Post-Chicago Stagings

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The Elton John-Shaina Taub stage musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, which recently ended a five-week engagement in Chicago, is “not ready” for subsequent stagings, John said today, seeming to end speculation that a Broadway or West End production was in the immediate offing.“Devil Wears Prada was in preview in Chicago, and it’s not ready,” John said in an interview with BBC Radio2’s Zoe Ball, who asked if the show was coming to London. “It’ll be ready in about another year.

We can’t get our theater anyways.”In the meantime, the rock icon will focus on Tammy Faye, the musical he co-wrote with Jake Schears that opens this fall at London’s Almeida Theater.Although John didn’t go into detail about what, exactly, isn’t working with Prada – he phoned into the radio show to plug his “Hold Me Closer” single with Britney Spears – reviews of the Chicago production, which ran July 19 – August 21 at the James M.

Nederlander Theatre, weren’t so withholding. Sniped The New York Times, “Though the show takes place at a fashion magazine, its creative team doesn’t seem to have agreed on a style.

Is this a sincere story of a young woman’s education — sentimental, professional, sartorial — or a Fashion Week party? An inquiry into toxic workplace culture or an excuse to put an Eiffel Tower (technically, two Eiffel Towers) onstage?

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