Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard give perfect performances in 'Death Becomes Her,' the hilarious new musical which opened Thursday, Nov. 21 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City, based on the 1992 film.

When the new musical Death Becomes Her opened on an appropriately dark and stormy night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre this week, it instantly added to the Broadway canon two sublime dueling-diva turns from two preternaturally gifted comediennes: Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.

Tony nominees Megan Hilty (“Wicked”), Jennifer Simard (“Company”), and Christopher Sieber (“Spamalot”) star in “Death Becomes Her” on Broadway. The show is being performed at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in Manhattan. They are joined with Grammy winner Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child among other talented actors.

Death Becomes Her, the new musical with a book by Marco Pennette, a score by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, and direction and choreography

A perfect rejoinder to the ubiquitous Broadway Sucks These Days gripe about the too-many movie-to-stage adaptations has arrived at long last, and it’s a simple three-word response: Death Becomes Her.

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Death Becomes Her,” which has had some major plastic surgery since its Chicago tryout, has been nicely nipped, tucked, lifted and deftly de-flabbed, with a pair of gutsy, zesty and highly skilled

Megan Hilty always knew “Death Becomes Her” would make a great musical - and now she’s headlining the show on Broadway. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: The fan-favorite stage and screen actress (“Smash,