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    Review: ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ musical opens in Chicago, not yet ready for its runway spotlight

    CHICAGO — The reason Lauren Weisberger’s satirical memoir “The Devil Wears Prada” became famous was not just because of the juicy schadenfreude-y movie with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It’s because Weisberger was self-aware enough to see that the thirst for power included herself. On the one hand, she took out her knives and dissected the terrifying tastemaker Miranda, a stand-in for Anna ...
    by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Aug 10, 2022 4 minutes
    Principal cast members of "The Devil Wears Prada," from left, Christian Thompson, Michael Tacconi, Tiffany Mann, Christiana Cole, Megan Masako Haley, Javier Munoz, Taylor Iman Jones, and Beth Leaver at the Nederlander Theatre on July 12, 2022, in Chicago.

    CHICAGO — The reason Lauren Weisberger’s satirical memoir “The Devil Wears Prada” became famous was not just because of the juicy schadenfreude-y movie with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It’s because Weisberger was self-aware enough to see that the thirst for power included herself.

    On the one hand, she took out her knives and dissected the terrifying tastemaker Miranda, a stand-in for Anna Wintour, a bourgeois feminist survivor with veiled vulnerability. On the other, she knew that the very act of writing the memoir meant that her alter-ego Andy was no different from Miranda, even though she shrouded her hunger for

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