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Jennifer Simard might be your person in "Death Becomes Her" on Broadway

By Sarah LaDuke

Published May 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM EDT

Jennifer Simard in "Death Becomes Her" on Broadway

Jennifer Simard is glowing, growling, stunning, and striving in eight shows a week as Helen Sharp in “Death Becomes Her” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway.

Based on the Robert Zemeckis directed camp-classic film from 1992, “Death Becomes Her” features music and lyrics by Noel Carey and Julia Mattison and a book by Marco Pennette. It is directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli and Simard’s co-stars are Megan Hilty, Christopher Sieber, and Michelle Williams.

Jennifer Simard’s Broadway credits include “Shrek The Musical,” “Disaster!,” “Hello, Dolly!,” “Mean Girls,” and “Company.” She was nominated for Tony Awards for her performances in “Disaster!” and “Company.” Her talents have also been employed in many notable off-Broadway productions.

The now three-time Tony Award nominated actor – “Death Becomes Her” received 10 Tony Award Nominations this month – is also a Webby Award winning podcast co-host, with Patrick Hinds, for “The Golden Girls Deep Dive Podcast.”

To paraphrase a saying popularized by Chappell Roan last year - Jennifer Simard is your favorite theater-person’s favorite theater person - and she joins us this morning.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has worked in public radio since 2006. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing. She is on the board of WAM Theatre and lives in Albany, New York with her husband, Paul, and their dog, Doritos.

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