Catherine O’Hara — who played Delia Deetz in Tim Burton’s 1988 movie “Beetlejuice” and introduced the new musical adaptation at Sunday’s Tony Awards — was invited onstage after the final curtain at the hit Broadway show on Saturday.
“She told the audience that it took three days to shoot the dinner-party scene [in the 1988 movie] where they sing [Harry Belafonte’s] ‘Day-O,’ ” says an attendee, “and all they were doing was lip-syncing!”
Afterward, O’Hara went backstage, where we hear she was gifted a prop from the show — a copy of the “Handbook for the Recently Deceased.”
“I have the copy of this from the movie set, and now I have the one from the Broadway set,” she said.