Broadway’s “Death Becomes Her” has been nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Two more of those nods go to Christopher Gattelli for his supreme direction and choreography.
Based on the Robert Zemeckis film off the same name, “Death Becomes Her” is high camp and high belting. It stars Megan Hilty as Madeleine Ashton and Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp — frenemies who want to kill each other. But when they do, neither can actually die thanks to a youth potion that grants them immortality, even as their bodies decay. It’s a romp. It’s a gag. It’s an entertainment.
Gattelli (the Tony-winning choreographer of “Newsies”) pulls out all the stops for the dance in this show — and breaks down the movement vocabulary in this show. Plus, he tells host Ruthie Fierberg how he made the musical different from the movie, how he found its tone and how he makes the body doubles WERK.
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Photo credit: Christopher Gattelli; courtesy of Polk & Co.
