Kaleigh Cronin has made her debut as Helen Sharp in Death Becomes Her on Broadway! While Jennifer Simard is on vacation, ...

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The black comedy Death Becomes Her, which has developed a healthy cult following since it opened 25 years ago, on July 31, 1992, is rarely cited as a special effects milestone. Yet Industrial ...

Death Becomes Her didn’t just have great visual effects, it had an amazing set design, costumes, and makeup.The wig department alone should have won two Oscars. I know the Academy Awards takes ...

Christopher Gattelli had choreographed 17 previous Broadway shows, winning a Tony Award for Newsies. But this season's Death Becomes Her marks his first time directing, in addition to crafting the ...

With Zemeckis, 72, at the helm of Death Becomes Her — a movie where Streep, 75, has her head on backwards after breaking her neck, and Hawn, 78, gets a shotgun-induced hole in her abdomen ...

When he was first asked to lead the Broadway hit musical “Death Becomes Her,” director and choreographer Christopher Gattelli loved it, but refused to work on the big, splashy opening number.

Death Becomes Her Through 6/2: Tue and Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Wed and Sat 2 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM; Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph, broadwayinchicago.com, $30-$122.

“Death Becomes Her” also looks terrific. Set designer Derek McLane’s sweeping art-deco-meets-Gothic arches provide a lush frame for rich, predominant purples that lighting designer Justin ...

The Death Becomes Her score is described, “For nearly four decades, the Academy Award-winning partnership between director/producer Robert Zemeckis and composer/conductor Alan Silvestri has ...

Its visual effects, from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), earned Death Becomes Her its only Oscar nomination and win. In part because of the new territory they explored on the film, the company ...