UP ON THE MARQUEE: WOMEN ON THE VERGE!
By: Jessica Lewis Aug. 18, 2010
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As BroadwayWorld has previously reported, Lincoln Center Theater will present the new musical WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, based on the film by Pedro Almodóvar, with a book by Jeffrey Lane, music and lyrics by David Yazbek and direction by Bartlett Sher. This world premiere production will begin previews on Saturday, October 2 at 8pm and open on Thursday, November 4 at 6:45pm on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre (111 W. 44 Street). The production stars Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Laura Benanti and Sheri Rene Scott. The marquee is in its first stages of going up at the Belasco Theatre and BroadwayWorld brings you a look below!
Taking center stage is Pepa (Sherie Rene Scott). Brian Stokes Mitchell plays her long lost and possibly unfaithful lover Ivan. LuPone assumes the role of Ivan's off-balanced ex-wife; Laura Benanti plays Pepa's friend, Candela; De'Adre Aziza her terrorist boyfriend; and Danny Burstein the tissue/mint/advice-dispensing taxi driver.
The cast will also include Nikka Graff Lanzarone, who will play Marisa, the fiancée of Lucia's and Ivan's son, and Mary Beth Peil, who will play a concierge.
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN will have choreography by Christopher Gattelli, musical direction by Jim Abbott, sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Brian MacDevitt and sound by Scott Lehrer.
Next season, in addition to WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, Lincoln Center Theater will be producing the world premieres of John Guare's A Free Man of Color, directed by George C. Wolfe, (beginning Thursday, October 21) in the Vivian Beaumont Theater and Jon Robin Baitz' Other Desert Cities, directed by Joe Mantello, (beginning Thursday, December 16) in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, the American premiere of the National Theatre of Great Britain's critically acclaimed production of War Horse (beginning Thursday, March 17) in the Vivian Beaumont Theater and the New York premiere of A Minister's Wife, a new musical version of Shaw's Candida (beginning Thursday, April 7) in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. LCT3 will present three productions next season at The Duke on 42nd Street including the world premieres of The Coward, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Sam Gold (November 8 - December 4) and When I Come To Die, by Nathan Louis Jackson, directed by Thomas Kail (January 31 - February 26). For more information, visit www.lct.org.
Photo Credit: Jessica Lewis
Belasco Theatre
WOMEN ON THE VERGE Marquee
WOMEN ON THE VERGE Marquee
WOMEN ON THE VERGE Marquee
WOMEN ON THE VERGE Marquee
WOMEN ON THE VERGE Marquee
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