DEATH BECOMES HER to conclude Broadway run on 28 June ahead of North American tour
The Tony Award® winning and Grammy Award® nominated musical, and the most nominated production of the 2024/2025 Broadway season, DEATH BECOMES HER, Broadway’s drop-dead hilarious musical comedy, will conclude its acclaimed and “savagely funny” Broadway run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on 28 June.
Producer Lowe Cunningham, SVP, Head of Creative & Strategy, Universal Theatrical Group, said: “Bringing Death Becomes Her to Broadway has been an incredible joy, and we are immensely proud of every artist, musician, crew member, and individual who helped make this show what it is. Night after night, it has been a thrill to watch audiences come together to laugh, celebrate, and embrace the wildly entertaining spirit of this production. We are deeply proud of what this show has brought into the world, and we are excited for its life to continue as it tours across the U.S. and beyond in the years ahead.”
DEATH BECOMES HER will launch a multi-year North American tour this September at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH.
The production features direction and choreography by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli, a book by Tony Award nominee Marco Pennette, and an original score by Tony Award nominees Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, and currently stars Tony Award nominees Betsy Wolfe as Madeline Ashton, Tony Award nominee Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp, Tony Award nominee Christopher Sieber as Ernest Menville, and Grammy® Award winner Michelle Williams as Violet Van Horn, with Taurean Everett as Chagall, and Josh Lamon as Stefan. The cast also includes Marija Abney, Kate Bailey, Sarita Colón, Alexa DeBaar, Brayden Newby, Ximone Rose, Jonalyn Saxer, Bethany Ann Tesarck, Mitch Tobin, Sir Brock Warren, Bud Weber, Ryan Worsing, David Wright Jr., Warren Yang, Ayla Ciccone-Burton, Kristine Covillo, Alex Hartman, Lakota Knuckle, McKinley Knuckle, Justin O’Brien, Preston Perez, Amy Quanbeck, and Dee Roscioli.
DEATH BECOMES HER has set design by two-time Tony Award winner Derek McLane, costumes by Tony Award winner Paul Tazewell, lighting by Tony Award winner Justin Townsend, sound by Tony Award winner Peter Hylenski, hair and wig design by two-time Drama Desk Award winner Charles G. LaPointe, make-up design by Joe Dulude II, and fight direction by Drama Desk Award winner Cha Ramos, with music supervision by Drama Desk Award winner Mary-Mitchell Campbell, orchestrations by three-time Tony Award winner Doug Besterman, music direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, dance & music arrangements by Tony Award nominee Sam Davis, vocal arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Julia Mattison & Noel Carey, and casting by Tara Rubin Casting.
Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies… until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that’s to die for. After one sip of Viola’s magical potion, Madeline and Helen begin a new era of life (and death) with their youth and beauty restored…and a grudge to last eternity. Life’s a bitch and then you die. Or not!