The Dev­il Wears Pra­da is get­ting a stage adap­ta­tion cour­tesy of Elton John

Gird your loins, because everyone’s favorite haute cou­ture rom­com is soon head­ing for cin­e­mas to Broadway.

After Chica­go, that is, where a new musi­cal adap­ta­tion of The Dev­il Wears Pra­da will make a grand debut next sum­mer. The Chica­go Tri­bune reports that James M. Ned­er­lan­der The­atre will play host to at least a month­long run of the stage take on the much-beloved 2006 film (itself reworked by screen­writer Aline Brosh McKen­na from a 2003 nov­el), and the long-ges­tat­ing project has already land­ed a major tal­ent to whip up the musi­cal selections.

None oth­er than Elton John, cur­rent­ly on a ​“farewell” tour that doesn’t seem to be slow­ing his career in the slight­est, will com­pose the score for the new songs. He’s joined by NYU upstart Shaina Taub on lyrics, and Paul Rud­nik will write the inter­sti­tial scenes that libret­tists know as the ​“book” (hav­ing done punch-up work on First Wives Club and adap­ta­tion duty for The Step­ford Wives, he seems well-qualified).

The fish-out-of-water script sticks an ambi­tious young jour­nal­ist in a high­ly com­pet­i­tive fash­ion pub­li­ca­tion, which she ini­tial­ly con­sid­ers her­self above until get­ting a load of the tyran­ni­cal editrix-in-chief Miran­da Priesst­ly, an Anna Win­tour stand-in mem­o­rably por­trayed by Meryl Streep. Who­ev­er takes the Priesst­ly role, the true lead despite being the pri­ma­ry antag­o­nist, will have their work cut out for them, over­writ­ing a role that’s already been played so indelibly.

The songs prac­ti­cal­ly write them­selves: ​“Flo­rals For Spring (Ground­break­ing)” as Priesstly’s big char­ac­ter-intro­duc­tion num­ber, maybe a bal­lad about the tribu­la­tions of stay­ing thin titled ​“Just One Stom­ach Flu Away,” Act One end­ing with ensem­ble tune ​“Glacial Pace.” After the suc­cess of female-for­ward movie-to-musi­cal adap­ta­tions in recent years, from Legal­ly Blonde to Wait­ress, this looks like anoth­er Broad­way smash in the mak­ing. At the very least, the Tony for cos­tum­ing has been all but locked up.