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Vanessa Williams to star in Elton John's West End version of The Devil Wears Prada as she lands lead role as Miranda Priestly


The stage production is based on the 2003 novel that was used as the basis for the 2006 film, which starred Meryl Streep as magazine editor Priestly and Anne Hathaway as her assistant.

It marks a return to UK theatre for Vanessa, 60, who made her West End stage debut in the musical City of Angels which was forced to shut down early due to the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Vanessa Williams (pictured last week) will make a return to UK theatre in October to star as Miranda Priestly in Elton John 's West End adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada Referring to the the scene in the film where Priestly's colleague, played by Stanley Tucci, warns the office of the elegantly fearsome editor's imminent arrival, Vanessa added: 'Gird your loins, folks'.

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