First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
bwaygossip
Swing Joined: 5/25/07
#1First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 8:11am
First Wives Club -- The Musical, based on the best-selling novel and Hollywood blockbuster of the same name, is coming to Broadway!
The new musical will be produced by Paul Lambert and Jonas Neilson and will feature a score by Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland, the threesome who created hits for Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops and The Supremes. The songwriters will compose original tunes for the musical, which will likely feature some of their hit tunes as well.
Francesca Zambello, the director of Disney's new stage production of The Little Mermaid, has signed to direct the new musical of The First Wives Club.
Zambello's directorial credits include the Bregenz Festival's production of West Side Story, the Metropolitan Opera's staging of Les Troyens and the Disney theme park version of Aladdin.
Rupert Holmes is set to pen the book for First Wives Club -- The Musical. Holmes most recently penned the book for the musical Curtains.
First Wives Club -- The Musical
#2re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 8:35amNo! Really? You're kidding!
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#2re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 10:13amDid not care for the movie - can't see it as a musical either. The only reason the movie sold at all was the cast. It was full of one dimensional characters and unlikely situations - like the redecorating scene? Oh, pleazzze!
i.heart.link
Featured Actor Joined: 5/7/07
#3re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 6:09pmLOVE the movie! so excited!
loverly
Understudy Joined: 8/6/06
#4re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 6:18pmWho is attached to direct this? Anyone?
#5re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 6:50pmThis is no new news, but yeah, thanks for posting anyway?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 6:53pm
Read this before you post again.
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#7re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 6:57pm
Step off, ho!
I'm the FIRST WIVES CLUB representative here.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#8re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 7:03pm
The article clearly states who is directing.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#9re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 7:08pm
Francesca Zambello, the director of Disney's new stage production of The Little Mermaid, has signed to direct the new musical of The First Wives Club.
Updated On: 5/25/07 at 07:08 PM
#10re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 5/25/07 at 7:10pmLMAO, Diva. Can't. Breathe. Priceless.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
broadwayboy1017
Leading Actor Joined: 6/4/07
#11re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 10:45amany news on this?? when is it coming?
#12re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 11:30amI liked the movie also and could see this as a great musical!
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#13re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 11:39amHolland Dozier Holland. The music should be interesting and I hope good. Grew up on their music with Motown.
Just give the world Love.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#14re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:00pmHopefully the producers saw Mermaid and will get a different director.
TheatreBuzz2
Featured Actor Joined: 8/24/07
#15re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:24pm
I love the film and think its perfect for a broadway show! Hope they get on to it asap!!
Bernadette has to star.
Have to say after seeing Frances' Showboat and recently Little Mermaid, i'm not blown away by her directing...
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#16re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:26pmThis sounds terrible. Another Broadway show that isn't so much a musical as it is an executive decision to make a musical.
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#17re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:33pm^You saw it?
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#18re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:37pm
Look for FWC to make its Broadway bow early next year...
And to all the naysayers out there, from what I can gather from a friend who happens to be attached to the show, things are really coming together and when this hits it's going to be huge ... Take that for what it's worth.
#19re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 3:00pm
bernie must play the keaton role.
patti must play the midler role.
sherie must play the hawn role.
that is all.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#20re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 3:06pm
Um the Hawn role is now played by an African American (is that the PC term).
Actually the way they were describing her makes it sound like they turned Elise into Whitney Huston.
Updated On: 2/5/08 at 03:06 PM
#21re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 4:26pmAnd Peters was tackled for the Bette Midler role (though she would have made a divine Elise had the role remained similar to the film).
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#22re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 7:30pmDoes ANYbody else miss musicals not based on movies? Yuck, I'm sick of this trend.
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#23re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 7:36pm
joanna gleason for annie!! (the diane keaton role)
she'd be perfection
#24re: First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/08 at 7:37pm
It's not a trend.
Musicals, more often than not, are based off of some already existing material: books, dramas, poetry, autobiographies or even paintings!
It just so happens that movies are more widely recognized.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
