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,

Meryl Streep is passing the torch to Megan Hilty with her signature charm and wit. Ahead of Death Becomes Her’s Broadway opening on Thursday, November 21, Hilty, 43, shared an Instagram

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).