Despite an announcement in March that West End musical Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown would extend its run to Saturday 22 August 2015, the musical will close at the Playhouse Theatre on Saturday 23 May. The UK première of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s musical comedy adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-nominated film Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown opened on […]
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Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown extends run
The West End musical Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will extend its run to Saturday 22 August 2015. Olivier Award-nominees Tamsin Greig (Best Actress in a Musical) and Haydn Gwynne (Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical), continue to lead the international cast that includes Ricardo Afonso, Marianne Benedict, Seline Hizli, Holly James, Michael Matus, Rebecca McKinnis, Sarah Moyle, Alastair […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Playhouse Theatre
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown continues at the Playhouse, London. 2 stars ** Arguably one of Pedro Almodovar’s best loved movies, Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is an unconventional comedy that touches on the lives of several women in Madrid in the late 1980s. The movie brought the director international acclaim and featured a young Antonio […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ends West End run in March before tour
After a successful year in London at the Savoy Theatre, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be moving on to pastures new with international productions in Australia, South Korea and Germany and on a two-year national UK tour. London theatregoers have until 7 March to book tickets. Starting at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre on 5 May, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown has official London launch
Last night saw a frenzied reception for the launch of the UK premiere of new musical comedy Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The Institute of Contemporary Arts was packed to capacity with theatre glitterati and members of the press being serenaded by flamenco guitars, while carefully appointed screens spooled scenes from the original movie. Based […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels set to tour the UK in 2015
A national tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will open at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on 5 May 2015 where it plays until 16 May 2015 (the musical then goes on to visit Sunderland, Glasgow, Liverpool, Torquay, Stoke, Oxford and Edinburgh). The West End production of the show continues to play at the Savoy Theatre. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opened in the West End […]
Willemijn Verkaik joins the Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
New musical comedy Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will boast an international cast with Ricardo Afonso, Haydn Oakley and Willemijn Verkaik joining the previously announced Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne, Jérôme Pradon and Anna Skellern. Additional cast members include Marianne Benedict, Holly James, Michael Matus, Rebecca McKinnis, Sarah Moyle, Alastair Natkiel, Nuno Queimado and Dale Rapley. In addition, the song ‘Madrid’, the opening number from David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s score for the […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – more casting announced
Hadyn Gwynne, Jerome Pradon and Anna Skellern join Tamsin Greig in the UK premiere of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s new musical adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-nominated film Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher, and following two full-scale development workshops with actors, musicians and the creative team, […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – first glimpse of Tamsin Greig
Today is the first chance to see Tamsin Greig as ‘Pepa Marcos’ in the forthcoming musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar’s Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown which opens at the Playhouse Theatre on 12 January, with previews from 20 December. See the behind-the-scenes video of Grieg’s transformation via: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iMwCHJpZ4U Olivier-Award winner Greig makes her musical theatre debut in the UK premiere of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Savoy Theatre
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels continues at the Savoy Theatre, London. Billy Elliot, The Commitments, The Bodyguard, Once, not to mention forthcoming stage versions of Made in Dagenham and Back to the Future; those musical adaptations of movies just keep on coming. This time it’s Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek’s take on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (the 1988 Michael […]
