LONDON (AP) — Elton John says he struggled to look at his new musical as a result of he has misplaced his eyesight after contracting an an infection.
The singer-songwriter attended the opening night time of “The Devil Wears Prada” in London on Sunday and advised the viewers that “I haven’t been in a position to come to lots of the previews as a result of, as you understand, I’ve misplaced my eyesight.”
“So it’s laborious for me to see it, however I like to listen to it and, boy, it sounded good tonight,” he stated.
John, 77, disclosed in September that an an infection had left him “with solely restricted imaginative and prescient in a single eye.” He wrote on Instagram that “I’m therapeutic, but it surely’s an especially sluggish course of and it’ll take a while earlier than sight returns to the impacted eye.”
John wrote the rating for “The Devil Wears Prada,” a stage musical primarily based on the 2006 film a couple of younger journalist navigating the glamour and egos of a shiny style journal.
The manufacturing at London’s Dominion Theatre stars Vanessa Williams because the fearsome editor Miranda Priestly, performed by Meryl Streep within the movie.
Sunday’s gala, a fundraiser for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, was attended by celebrities and fashion-industry figures together with designer Donatella Versace and former Vogue editor Anna Wintour, the rumored inspiration for the Priestly character.
Wintour described the musical as “entertaining.”
