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,

The stars of the latest screen-to-stage adaptation open up to PEOPLE about bringing the Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn film to life again

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,

“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).

Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in 'Death Becomes Her.' Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman. Tony nominees Megan Hilty (“Wicked”), Jennifer Simard (“Company”), and Christopher Sieber (“Spamalot”) star in “Death Becomes Her” on Broadway.