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Review: ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ musical dressed to the eights

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The musical is a riff on what life was like for those working in the offices of Vogue magazine. The show traces the transformation of Andy Sachs, a brainy and ambitious recent college grad from North Carolina. The musical's book, by Kate Wetherhead, is serviceable but lacks a certain New York bite.

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‘The Devil Wears Prada’: A New Musical in Need of Major Alterations

In a pre-Broadway Chicago tryout, “The Devil Wears Prada” musical features miscalculated costume design, a score lacking in magic and uneven direction. What’s more, the attempt to update the story for 2022 undercuts the time period so essential to both the book and film.

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Review: ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ musical dressed to the eights

“Gird your loins!”That famous line of dialogue from the 2006 Meryl Streep-Anne Hathaway film “The Devil Wears Prada,” in which Nigel (Stanley Tucci) forewarns the staff at Runway magazine that feared, demanding editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly (Streep) will be arriving at her office sooner than anticipated, could just as easily be the advice given to theater critics in Chicago on Sunday night.A stage musical based on the movie – which itself was…

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