LCT Postpones WOMEN ON THE VERGE Pre-Performance Talk 10/28

Lincoln Center Theater has announced the postponement of the opening talk of their Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers. This event was set to open its 12th season on Thursday (October 28) at 6 pm with a pre-performance talk with Jeffrey Lane (book), David Yazbek (music) and Bartlett Sher (director), the co-creators of the new musical, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The talk will be rescheduled for a different date.

Based on Pedro Almodóvar's internationally acclaimed 1988 film, the musical is set in late 20th-century Madrid and tells the story of the intertwining lives of a group of women (Sherie Rene Scott, De'Adre Aziza, Laura Benanti, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Patti LuPone) whose relationships with men lead to a tumultuous 48 hours of love, confusion and passion. Book writer Jeffrey Lane collaborated with David Yazbek on the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The winner of five Emmy Awards, three Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards and a Golden Globe Award, Lane is best known for his work on such television programs as Mad About You, Ryan's Hope, Lou Grant and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Composer-lyricist David Yazbek made his Broadway and musical theater debuts with The Full Monty, for which he earned Tony and Grammy nominations and a Drama Desk Award. Director Bartlett Sher, Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, won the Tony Award for his direction of LCT's production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC. He was nominated for Tony Awards for the LCT productions of The Light in the Piazza, Awake and Sing! and Joe Turner's Come and Gone. His other recent New York credits include A Prayer for My Enemy at Playwrights Horizons and the Metropolitan Opera productions of The Barber of Seville and The Tales of Hoffman.

Platform Series events take place in the early evening in the lobby of the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65th Street). Admission is free and open to all; however, seating in the lobby is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis only, beginning at a half hour before the talk. (Speakers and schedules are subject to change. Call 212-362-7600 to confirm on the day of the event.)

Upcoming Platforms are scheduled for
Wednesday, November 10, at 6 pm, with the playwright John Guare and the director George C. Wolfe discussing their work on the new play, A Free Man of Color;
Thursday, December 2, at 5:30 pm with several cast members of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. (Participants to be announced)
and
Thursday, December 9, at 6:00 pm with several cast members of A Free Man of Color. (Participants to be announced)

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform series was introduced in the summer of 1998. Transcripts of the previous talks are available on-line at www.lct.org.