“Death Becomes Her,” the big, glossy Broadway musical built from the 1992 cult film about vanity, rivalry, revenge, and eternal youth, will end its Broadway run on June 28, 2026, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
By then, the show will have played 20 months, more than 650 performances, and sold 900,000 tickets — a strong commercial life for a musical that arrived with camp in its bones and Broadway muscle behind it. The production was the most-nominated show of the 2024-2025 Broadway season, earning 34 nominations across major theater awards, including 10 Tony Award nominations and a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album.
But this is not quite a farewell. It is more of a transformation.
The musical, produced by Universal Theatrical Group, will launch a multi-year North American tour in September 2026 at Playhouse Square in Cleveland before moving through cities including Columbus, St. Louis, Nashville, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento. International productions are also expected to be announced.
Adapted from Robert Zemeckis’s darkly funny film, “Death Becomes Her” follows Madeline Ashton, Helen Sharp, and the mysterious Viola Van Horn into a world where beauty, ambition, and resentment refuse to die politely. Onstage, that story became a vehicle for broad comedy, sharp physical staging, and the kind of excess Broadway can still deliver when it chooses to go all in.
The production stars Tony Award nominees Betsy Wolfe as Madeline Ashton, Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp, and Christopher Sieber as Ernest Menville, with Grammy winner Michelle Williams as Viola Van Horn. Christopher Gattelli directs and choreographs, with a book by Marco Pennette and an original score by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey.
Its Broadway life also extended far beyond the theater. The original Broadway cast recording became a social media force, with the album streamed tens of millions of times and a clip of Simard performing “Hit Me” turning into a major TikTok moment. The production’s cast and creative team also made more than 30 national television appearances during the run, including performances and interviews tied to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Tony Awards, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Today,” “Good Morning America,” “The Kelly Clarkson Show” and “Nightline.”
Lowe Cunningham, senior vice president and head of creative and strategy at Universal Theatrical Group, said the company was proud of the artists, musicians, crew members, and others who helped shape the production, adding that the show’s life would continue “across the U.S. and beyond.”
For Broadway, the closing marks the end of a run that leaned fully into spectacle, camp, and female comic ferocity. For the show itself, the title now feels almost too perfect.
Death becomes her. And then, apparently, she tours.
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