Panned ‘Devil Wears Prada’ musical is seeking a massive makeover

nypost.com:

disastrous new musical version of the Meryl Streep movie. At least not yet.Broadway insiders thought it was dead on arrival after opening to lukewarm-to-scathing reviews in Chicago last week from every major critic — The Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times. (I’m shocked Le Monde didn’t show up!) But the show isn’t packing up its Prabal Gurung just yet — it’s charging ahead like a model who just face-planted on the catwalk.Getting to New York, however, will involve a lot more than finding its balance and fixing its hair.Multiple sources told The Post that “Kinky Boots” director Jerry Mitchell was flown out to Chicago Wednesday by producer Kevin McCollum to see the struggling stiletto and give his thoughts.

Other directors have made the trek, too. A “Prada” rep did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.And, lest you think Mitchell simply wanted to take in the beauty of the Chicago River in summer, his new off-Broadway production of “Kinky Boots” starts being seen by critics here on Friday.

He’s busy. Current director Anna D. Shapiro, who won a Tony for “August: Osage County” — the total opposite of “Prada” — was at the theater Wednesday night also.

Could Mitchell be in town to give her notes? Sure! Jerry Zaks went to Chicago 13 years ago to give “The Addams Family” notes, and the producer liked them so much he fired the original co-directors and gave Zaks the job instead.The Post has reached out to Shapiro for comment.Sources inside the production, with a book by Kate Wetherhead and lyrics by Shaina Taub, said the team has wrestled with what to do with the Miranda character.