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.

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

Streep starred as fictional star Madeline Ashton in the original 1992 dark comedy film, and the movie is now a Broadway musical

When Meryl Streep tells you to break a leg, you go ahead and make that a compound fracture.

While her Death Becomes Her character isn’t a good sport, Meryl Streep sure is - and drop-dead hilarious at that. Tony nominee Megan Hilty, who is currently reincarnating the self-centered has-been actress Madeline Ashton (whom Streep originated in the 1992 Robert Zemeckis fantasy-comedy) on the Broadway stage,

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Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in 'Death Becomes Her.' Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman. Tony nominees Megan Hilty (“Wicked”), Jennifer Simard (“Company”), and Christopher Sieber (“Spamalot”) star in “Death Becomes Her” on Broadway.