{"id":102406,"date":"2026-01-16T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102406\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:27:13","slug":"betsy-wolfe-joins-death-becomes-her-on-broadway-beginning-january-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102406\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy Wolfe Joins Death Becomes Her on Broadway Beginning January 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBetsy Wolfe Joins Death Becomes Her on Broadway Beginning January 16<\/p>\n

The screen-to-stage musical continues its run at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.<\/p>\n

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Betsy Wolfe
\n Valerie Terranova <\/p>\n

Broadway’s\u00a0Death Becomes Her<\/a> gets a new star at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre January 16 as Betsy Wolfe<\/a> joins the company as Madeline Ashton. Wolfe (&\u00a0Juliet) succeeds original star Megan Hilty<\/a>, who took her final bow in the musical January 11. Standby Dee Roscioli has been starring in the interim.<\/p>\n

Wolfe joins a continuing cast that includes Jennifer Simard<\/a> as Helen Sharp, Christopher Sieber<\/a> as Ernest Menville, Michelle Williams<\/a> as Violet Van Horn, Taurean Everett<\/a> as Chagall, and Josh Lamon<\/a> as Stefan. The company also includes Marija Abney<\/a>, Sarita Col\u00f3n<\/a>, Kaleigh Cronin<\/a>, Alexa De Barr<\/a>, Natalie Charle Ellis, Michael Graceffa<\/a>, Neil Haskell<\/a>, Ximone Rose<\/a>, Bethany Ann Tesarck<\/a>, Mitch Tobin<\/a>, Sir Brock Warren<\/a>, Bud Weber<\/a>, Ryan Worsing<\/a>, Warren Yang<\/a>, Kyle Brown<\/a>, Kristine Covillo<\/a>, Alex Hartman<\/a>, Lakota Knuckle<\/a>, McKinley Knuckle<\/a>, Johanna Moise<\/a>, Justin O\u2019Brien, Amy Quanbeck<\/a>, and Roscioli. Casting is by Tara Rubin Casting.<\/p>\n

READ: Broadway’s Death Becomes Her Is Unapologetically for the Gays\u2014And That’s Why It’s a Hit<\/a><\/p>\n

Death Becomes Her\u2014featuring a book by Marco Pennette<\/a>, adapted from the screenplay by Martin Donovan<\/a> and David Koepp<\/a>; and songs by Julia Mattison<\/a> and Noel Carey<\/a>\u2014opened November 21, 2024, and received 10 Tony nominations, including Best Musical. The production won for Best Costume Design for Paul Tazewell<\/a>. Tony winner Christopher Gattelli<\/a> directs and choreographs.<\/p>\n

The story, adapted from the 1992 film, follows two rivals who gain eternal youth via a magic potion with some dirty side effects.<\/p>\n

The production features scenic design by Derek McLane<\/a>, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Justin Townsend<\/a>, sound design by Peter Hylenski<\/a>, hair and wig design by Charles J. LaPointe, makeup design by Joe Dulude II<\/a>, fight direction by Cha Ramos, music supervision by Mary-Mitchell Campbell<\/a>, music direction by Ben Cohn<\/a>, orchestrations by Doug Besterman<\/a>, and dance and incidental music arrangements by Sam Davis<\/a>. Rachel Sterner is production stage manager.<\/p>\n

The film, directed and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, was noted for its relatively early use of CGI to achieve effects like star Meryl Streep’s head turned completely backwards and a gaping hole going through her co-star Goldie Hawn. This musical version has been kicking around since at least 2017, when Kristin Chenoweth<\/a> was attached to star, then with a separate creative team.<\/p>\n

Universal Theatrical Group<\/a>\u2014overseen by Jimmy Horowitz<\/a> and led by Lowe Cunningham<\/a>\u2014is producing.<\/p>\n

Buy tickets to Death Becomes Her on Broadway here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadway News Betsy Wolfe Joins Death Becomes Her on Broadway Beginning January 16 The screen-to-stage musical continues its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-102406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}