Megan Hilty Will Be Out of DEATH BECOMES HER Tonight Due to Illness

According to her official Instagram account, Megan Hilty, who plays Madeline Ashton in Death Becomes Her, will be out of the show tonight, Friday, October 25th. Understudy Kaleigh Cronin will go on until she returns.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the production's second Broadway preview last night was canceled due to illness within the company.

"Every time I take my kids to the theater and we see that white slip of paper tucked in the playbill announcing an understudy going on, I tell them to get excited: we are about to witness theater magic at it’s best.  Some of my favorite memories from Wicked were when I went on as the standby and I can tell you first hand that when an understudy goes on, the energy onstage is electric.  Everyone onstage and on the crew is rallying behind them and it ends up turning into an unforgettable experience that is only possible in the theater," wrote Hilty in the post's caption.

DEATH BECOMES HER began preview performances on Wednesday, October 23, ahead of opening on Thursday, November 21 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street). 

DEATH BECOMES HER stars Tony Award nominees Megan Hilty (Wicked, “Smash”), Jennifer Simard (Company, Disaster!), Christopher Sieber (Spamalot, Company), and Grammy Award winner Michelle Williams (Destiny's Child, Chicago). The cast also features Marija Abney, Lauren Celentano, Sarita Colon, Kaleigh Cronin, Natalie Charle Ellis, Taurean Everett, Michael Graceffa, Neil Haskell, Kolton Krouse, Josh Lamon, Sarah Meahl, Ximone Rose, Sir Brock Warren, Bud Weber, Ryan Worsing, Warren Yang, Kyle Brown, Lakota Knuckle, Johanna Moise, and Amy Quanbeck.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her features a book by Marco Pennette, and an original score by Julia Mattison & Noel Carey.

Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies… until Madeline steals Helen's fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that's to die for.

After one sip of Viola's magical potion, Madeline and Helen begin a new era of life (and death) with their youth and beauty restored…and a grudge to last eternity. Life's a bitch and then you die. Or not!