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.

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” Viola sings (backed up by her ever-present chorus of “immortals” attired by costume designer Paul Tazewell in stunning flesh-toned body suits tattoo-striped with glittery, purple swirls).

Tony nominees Megan Hilty (“Wicked”), Jennifer Simard (“Company”), and Christopher Sieber (“Spamalot”) star in “Death Becomes Her” on Broadway. The show is being performed at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in Manhattan. They are joined with Grammy winner Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child among other talented actors.

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

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,

When Meryl Streep tells you to break a leg, you go ahead and make that a compound fracture. Megan Hilty has revealed the hilarious note Streep recently sent along with some flowers before Hilty took the stage as Madeline Ashton in Death Becomes Her,