Vanessa Williams Is Stepping into Miranda Priestly's Shoes for The Devil Wears Prada Musical
Knowing Vanessa Williams deal with Meryl Streep's iconic characteristic of Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada musical, dwelling to open later this year in London.
Alright each person, gird your loins—all any other time!
Vanessa Williams is coming into into Miranda Priestly's pumps to lead the upcoming musical The Devil Wears Prada in London's West Quit theatre district. A teaser trailer for the production, released Feb. 19, presentations the Grotesque Betty alum reenacting segment of a scene from the hit 2006 film of the same name that sees the Runway magazine editor's dramatic arrival to work.
“Don't correct sit there,” Williams says from within the assist of her desk. “Aquire tickets, or one thing.”
The Desperate Housewives alum, who obtained a whopping 11 Grammy nominations during her singing occupation and modified into additionally nominated for a Tony in 2002 for Broadway's Into the Woods, has some very spacious footwear to beget. Meryl Streep portrayed the long-lasting characteristic of Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada film—and earned an Oscar nomination for her performance.
Williams, 60, is determined to well-known individual within the musical by July 2025, in preserving with the production's X account. Casting for the assorted characters, particularly Priestly's new assistant Andy Sachs—performed by Anne Hathaway within the film—has no longer but been introduced.
The Devil Wears Prada bellow aspects music from EGOT recipient Elton John, who obtained a Tony for Most efficient Licensed Ranking for Aida and modified into additionally nominated for the same award for his ratings for The Lion King and Billy Elliot the Musical, with lyrics by singer-songwriter Shaina Taub. Three-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, known for his work on presentations love Kinky Boots and Legally Blonde, is directing and choreographing the brand new musical.
The Devil Wears Prada officially opens on the Dominion Theatre in London Oct. 24. That's all.
Study out 20 secrets about The Devil Wears Prada the film below:
1. The film model of The Devil Wears Prada modified into within the works forward of the e book even hit shelves. The first 100 pages and an outline were ample to promote Fox executives on the roman-à-clef in accordance with creator Lauren Weisberger's short stint at Vogue as editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's assistant. “I modified into the necessary individual to be taught it at Fox 2000,” the studio's worn executive vice president Carla Hacken told Selection in 2016. “I believed Miranda Priestly modified into undoubtedly one of many greatest villains ever. I be conscious we aggressively went in and scooped it up.”
The adaption began forward of The New York Instances bestseller's 2003 open, but after four writers took a stab at crafting an immediate legend, Aline Brosh McKenna modified into tasked with developing a new script centered on the sacrifices women manufacture to poke up the masthead at trend magazines. “I wrote a draft pretty swiftly—it took me just a few month,” McKenna told the outlet. “Then I rewrote it in accordance with all people's notes.”
2. The lore of Wintour created a whole lot of difficulties for production. “I had huge hassle finding anyone within the model world who'd refer to me, ensuing from other folks were fearful of Anna and Vogue, no longer looking to be blackballed,” McKenna told Leisure Weekly of her study. “There modified into one one that spoke to me, whose name I might possibly additionally no longer ever show, who be taught it and stated, 'The other folks in this film are too good. No person in that world is simply too good. They don't want to be, and as well they don't have time to be.' After that, I did a pass to manufacture each person a itsy-bitsy bit busier and meaner.”
Wintour's gigantic reach made it refined to stable areas, director David Frankel admitted to EW. “The Met Ball supposed that the Metropolitan Museum wanted nothing to fetch with us,” he stated. Bryant Park—on the time, the long-working dwelling of New York Vogue Week—modified into out as successfully. “Even these iconic rental buildings we saw as potentialities for Miranda's rental, the co-op boards wouldn't allow us to in,” he shared. In the end, they borrowed a 5-anecdote Better East Facet town home from a buddy of producer Wendy Finerman.
3. Nonetheless there modified into one dwelling they nailed. “The solely contact we had with Vogue modified into Jess Gonchor, the production dressmaker, who snuck into their locations of work to fetch a scrutinize at Anna's space of job,” Frankel published to EW. “He modified into in a position to re-manufacture the gap of job so authentically that I modified into told Anna redecorated hers at this time after the film came out.”
4. The dresser presented a undeniable bellow as successfully. Within the starting build, Frankel told EW, they couldn't persuade any significant designers to lend objects for the film: “They correct didn't would like to incur the wrath of Anna.”
Enter legendary costumer Patricia Discipline, who labored her magic, assembling a lineup of some 150 objects from Donna Karan, Zac Posen, Rick Owens and, sure, Prada, taking care to distinguish Meryl Streep's exacting Miranda Priestly from Wintour. “She borrowed all the pieces; we needed to be very careful no longer to consume spaghetti at lunch,” well-known Streep, “ensuing from it'd gallop down the front and as well they couldn't return it!”
5. And Wintour has on the very least a shrimp humorousness in regards to the total thing. Streep sat down with the Vogue head for the model bible's 125th anniversary difficulty, sharing her journey portraying Wintour's behind buddy Katherine Graham in 2017's The Put up. Asked in regards to basically the most worrying personality she's ever performed, Streep spoke back, “Oh! I might possibly additionally serene bid…” trailing off as Wintour jumped in. “No, no!” she stated with fun. “We're no longer going there, Meryl.”
6. And she or he did assist a screening—the same one, if truth be told, as her worn aide Weisberger. “It modified into entertainment,” Wintour later told 60 Minutes of the film. “It modified into no longer a staunch rendition of what occurs within this magazine.”
7. Streep modified into the solely want to play Miranda, with studio VP Hacken admitting to Selection that they hadn't if truth be told regarded as any assorted actresses. “I don't be conscious one thing assorted than, 'Please God—let or no longer it is Meryl,'” she stated. When the Oscar winner's agent phoned announcing she had be taught the script and would meet with the director, Hacken placed him on a short abet to have a great time. “I modified into shouting in my space of job.”
Streep told EW she appreciated the personality's toughness and backbone no longer to manufacture herself no longer up to: “I cherished that there wasn't any backing faraway from the atrocious parts of her, and the valid provoking parts of her needed to fetch with the very fact that she didn't strive and ingratiate, which is continually the female emollient in any difficulty the build you desire your reach—what my buddy Carrie Fisher outdated skool to call 'the squeezy and tilty' of it all. [Miranda] didn't fetch any of that.”
8. Earlier than accepting the segment, Streep made a extremely Miranda Priestly-love poke. With out reference to having already restful two Oscars and one other 11 nominations by that time, Streep hadn't somewhat mastered the artwork of asking for extra pay. Nonetheless this time, she spoke up. “The offer modified into, to my solutions just a itsy-bitsy, if no longer insulting, no longer perchance reflective of my staunch price to the project,” she outlined to Selection. “There modified into my 'goodbye second,' after which they doubled the offer. I modified into 55, and I had correct learned, at a extremely behind date, deal on my have behalf.”
9. She had assorted demands as successfully. Cautious about turning Miranda staunch into a caricature, Streep insisted on two scenes: What she called “the commerce of trend,” wherein the trendsetter schooled Andy on her cerulean sweater, and “a scene the build she is without her armor, the unpeeled scene within the hotel room.”
The white hair modified into her introduction as successfully, Streep turning up along with her cool locks for a sit-down with the high of the studio. As director Frankel recalled to EW, “Meryl channeled Miranda in that meeting, and there modified into no dialog in regards to the hair; they looked into Meryl's eyes and never stated a notice.”
10. Anne Hathaway needed to work harder for her segment than assistant Andy toiled for Miranda. K, perchance no longer that tough, but as she build it during an look on RuPaul's Budge Flee, “I modified into the ninth need for Devil Wears Prada.”
Despite the very fact that Hathaway well-known to Selection that she didn't have to audition, “I needed to wait and see.” And open a plump-blown advertising campaign that included tracing the words “hire me” within the sand of Hacken's zen backyard. When Hathaway indirectly bought the facts, she modified into in her bedroom striking on a shirt. “I had some chums over,” she told the outlet. “I be conscious working out in my front room, half dressed, screaming—'I bought The Devil Wears Prada! I bought The Devil Wears Prada!'”
11. Fortuitously for Hathaway, pros' first need turned them down. Usually. “We supplied it to Rachel McAdams three cases,” director Frankel told EW of the actress, then filming Fox's The Family Stone. Coming off Indicate Ladies and The Notebook, McAdams stated she didn't would like to dive into one other mainstream flick. Acknowledged Frankel, “The studio modified into resolute to have her, and she or he modified into resolute no longer to fetch it.”
Streep—and Hathaway's flip within the 2005 Oscar winner Brokeback Mountain—helped seal the deal for The Princess Diaries alum. “Meryl watched that scene from the film,” Frankel recalled, “she met along with her and called up Tom Rothman at Fox and stated, 'Yeah, this lady's huge, and I bet we'll work successfully together.'”
12. Casting the segment of Emily modified into a lot extra work. Frankel watched better than 100 lady audition for the characteristic of Miranda's unforgiving lead assistant (amongst them: Tracie Thoms, who in the end came assist and be taught for Andy's bestie Lily), but it absolutely modified into a casually dressed Emily Blunt that caught his check.
Already on the Fox lot auditioning for a segment within the 2006 fantasy film Eragon, a casting agent asked the Brit to be taught for The Devil Wears Prada. “Nonetheless I modified into rushing for the airport, and I be conscious correct being roughly flustered,” Blunt published on The Late Late Camouflage in May possibly possibly also. “So I be taught it, but I modified into wearing sweatpants, and I didn’t scrutinize the segment at all.”
Days later, drowning her sorrows over no longer booking Eragon, Blunt obtained a call from Frankel. “I modified into in some dive club in London,” Blunt detailed to Selection. “I called him assist from the lavatory. He stated, 'Listen I’d have forged you off the tape, however the studio desires to scrutinize you one time beyond regulation. Are you able to fetch what you possibly did but dress the segment extra?'”
13. She already sounded the segment. Despite the very fact that Emily modified into within the starting build written as American, once screenwriter McKenna heard Blunt utter the biting one-liners along with her British accent, “we went to a espresso shop, went by the script, and peppered it with Britishisms,” McKenna told EW.
And Blunt deserves plump credit score for one bit she lifted from a wired-out mother. “I affirm I take from other folks I meet,” the actress outlined on The Howard Stern Camouflage. “Esteem, I saw a mother talking to her child in a grocery store when we were capturing that film. And it's a line that gets quoted assist to me now. She yelled at her kid and she or he roughly opened and closed her hand and she or he goes, 'Yeah, I'm listening to this, and I’d like to hear this.' I went and build it within the film.”
14. Stanley Tucci additionally helped craft some iconic lines. After producers spent months procuring for the correct match for Runway artwork director Nigel, the actor accredited the segment “on the 11th hour,” Tucci told EW. Then he proceeded to nail Nigel's dry humor, even improvising just a few of the personality's most quotable moments.
“I love the scene when Miranda is first coming up to the gap of job and all people variety of panics,” Tucci mirrored to Buzzfeed. “We all kept laughing so tough, and David kept throwing out lines for me to claim and 'Gird your loins' modified into the one which made it in.” Among the many rejects: “'Knockers in!'” Tucci shared with EW. “That modified into one I made up, but every time we laughed.”
15. Truly his favorite memento from the film is his family, Tucci closing shut ample with costar Blunt to fetch an invite to her 2010 marriage ceremony to John Krasinski. That's the build he reconnected with now-necessary other Felicity Blunt, he and the literary agent going on to marry in 2012 and welcome youngsters Matteo and Emilia.
Nonetheless as Tucci recounted to Folks, he if truth be told met his future bride on the film's 2006 premiere. At the time he modified into serene married to behind necessary other Kate Tucci, who'd correct obtained her breast most cancers diagnosis. “So I did the film, and she or he started treatments, after which we had the premiere, after which she modified into alive for four extra years after that,” he outlined. “And, if truth be told, Felicity—Emily's sister, my necessary other—she and Kate talked on the premiere that evening and I’ve a photograph of them together, which is so unfamiliar.”
16. Esteem Hathaway, Thoms remembers the staunch second she bought the selection that she'd be taking part in Lily, largely ensuing from it occurred on her Thirtieth birthday in August 2005. The Rent well-known individual felt rather confident in her audition—”At that time in my occupation, I had roughly slipped into this easiest buddy space. So I modified into love, 'Oh, Lily's easy. That's correct in my wheelhouse'”—but modified into serene extremely satisfied when she obtained notice.
“I modified into in Dartmouth doing a workshop of a new play by Alan Ball,” she recalled to E! Info. And it modified into within the cafeteria, over lunch, that she bought the facts. “It modified into love, 'Hi there, so that you booked Devil Wears Prada. Entirely pleased birthday!'” she shared. “It modified into a correct birthday memory.”
17. Thoms additionally remembers looking at Adrian Grenier—then on the height of his Entourage popularity—getting mobbed by followers and deftly facing every question for an autograph by handing out copies of his alt-folks band The Honey Brothers' CD as a replace. “He modified into the utilization of that likelihood to promote his band participants, ensuing from he modified into no longer the frontman of the band,” Thoms well-known of Grenier, forged as Andy's boyfriend Nate. “I believed that modified into if truth be told huge how he handled all people very particularly and appreciated their strengthen, and tried to ricochet that strengthen onto his colleagues.”
18. While Thoms had an altogether unbelievable journey—”We were all love, 'Oh my god, it's love we're doing Intercourse and the City.' We weren't, but it absolutely serene had that very New York, very metropolitan, very looking to be grownup thing about it”—she does have one regret.
She had an entire opinion for the Marc Jacobs derive that Lily (and Thoms) salivated over in a single key scene. “I asked the prop division to no longer bellow me the purse forward of we were rolling, ensuing from I wished the reaction to be genuine,” she stated. “That, love, gasping and grabbing and 'Gimme, gimme!', that took space ensuing from that purse modified into swish.”
So swish, if truth be told, “I had an entire space in my brain on abet the purse,” she admitted to E! Info. “After which the scene the build I modified into going to by some potential put out of your mind to poke away the purse in my trailer, that scene bought lower. So I never went assist to work to fetch the purse. It modified into very unhappy.”
19. Streep modified into the girl who didn't gallop to Paris. Within the starting build no one modified into dwelling to chat over with the City of Light to seize footage for the closing scenes of Miranda and Andy's immense time out to Paris Vogue Week. “I modified into aghast,” Frankel told Selection. Nonetheless midway by production he modified into in a position to build together a sizzle reel that convinced the studio to manufacture the film a summer season open with an elevated price range.
Hathaway and Simon Baker (as her assorted love curiosity, writer Christian) flew to France for 2 days of capturing, but Streep filmed her portions in New York, the studio claiming her shuttle might possibly maybe be a lot too expensive.
20. Truly, Streep overlooked out on lots of the fun. Making the want to utterly step into her Miranda demeanor and largely take away herself from any on-dwelling banter “modified into atrocious,” the actress later mirrored to EW. “I might possibly additionally hear all of them rocking and laughing. I modified into so unhappy! I stated, 'Successfully, it's the price you pay for being boss!' That's the closing time I ever attempted a Contrivance thing!”
Nonetheless forward of Streep went ice cool, she gave the briefest of pep talks, Hathaway recalled to Folks, announcing, “I need you to know I bet you're going to be huge, and I'm so satisfied to work with you…and that's the closing good thing I'm going to claim to you.”
That's all.
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