Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) has announced that Justin Guarini will join De'Adre Aziza, Laura Benanti, Danny Burstein, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mary Beth Peil and Sherie Rene Scott in the cast of its upcoming production of 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).
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN will also feature
Julio Agustin,
Alma Cuervo,
John Carroll,
Murphy Guyer,
Rachel Bay Jones,
Nina Lafarga,
Yanira Marin, Sean McCort,
Vivian Nixon,
Luis Salgado,
Jennifer Maria Sanchez,
John Schiappa,
Samantha Shafer,
Phillip Spaeth and
Charlie Sutton.
Based on Pedro Almodóvar's internationally acclaimed 1988 film, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN 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.
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.
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, he 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. Former Artistic Director of Seattle's
Intiman Theatre, 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.
Lincoln Center Theater is currently presenting the Tony Award winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific in the Vivian Beaumont Theater where it will end its record-breaking run on Sunday, August 22.
This 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 Tuesday, March 15) 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).
Photo Credit: BWW-Staff
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