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‘Death Becomes Her’ Broadway Stars Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard on How ‘Camp and General Over-the-Topness’ Make the Movie Sing Onstage
On the Stagecraft podcast, the duo talk comic timing, the show's contemporary POV and the special effects that keep audiences in stitches.
Simard said she appreciated the contemporary POV the musical brings to a story about society’s obsession with staying young. Hilty noted that she feels a personal connection to the societal pressures felt by her character, the vain actress Madeline Ashton. “I do very much connect with the idea that Madeline is an actress in a certain period of her life, questioning her physicality and her relevance because of it, and what I’m willing to do and not do to try to achieve a level of perfection and youth and beauty that is frankly unachievable,” she revealed.
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