"Casting and design team have been announced for the world premiere of The First Wives Club- A New Musical, which will play San Diego's Old Globe Theatre July 15-Aug. 23 with an official opening July 31.
The Broadway-bound musical features a book by Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes and a score by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland. Francesca Zambello (The Little Mermaid) directs.
The cast features Broadway veterans Karen Ziemba as Annie, Adriane Lenox as Elyse, Barbara Walsh as Brenda, John Dossett as Aaron, Kevyn Morrow as Bill, Brad Oscar as Morty, Sara Chase as Trophy Wife, Sam Harris as Duane and Ari Lerner and Austyn Myers alternating as Jason with Michelle Aravena, Mark Campbell, Thursday Farrar, Jenifer Foote, Bob Gaynor, Matthew LaBanca, Victoria Matlock, Hayley Podschun, Martin Samuel and Richard Waits.
The First Wives Club- A New Musical, according to press notes, "is a funny, moving and empowering story based on the smash-hit movie comedy and Olivia Goldsmith's bestselling novel. Former college friends reunite at middle-age and soon discover they share the same unhappy story - their ungrateful husbands careened into midlife by dumping them for younger women. After drowning their sorrows, they decide to put their long dormant talents to use, band together, and stylishly, systematically and hilariously get even with their exes!..."
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
I'm mostly disappointed that Ana Gasteyer is no longer attached to the project, she would have made a fantastic Brenda.
"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"
I don't know why Karen Ziemba always gets such criticism on here. Each time I have seen her on stage (Contact, Curtains, Steel Pier, Chicago anniversary concert) she has been nothing short of flawless. Hell, she was the only good part about Curtains in my opinion. I don't understand why people call her performances boring.
What's the reason for such a last minute cast change?
Aren't they in rehearsal already?
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Seriously? Lenox was the one piece of casting I was looking forward to. What a snoozefest.
"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"
P.S. Ziemba, while an entertaining performer, is DOA onstage despite her vast experience/pedigree/awards. PLUS she outright STOLE that 2000 Tony from Eartha Kitt. I bet the Tony's regret that decision now that Kitt has passed given the theatrical legacy she left (she did 3 post-WILD PARTY musicals, in her 80s mind you, in the revival of NINE and Kander & Ebb's new ALL ABOUT US last year, (edit:) as well as MIMI LE DUCK (thanks something wicked)), if they ever regretted any of their absurd shortsights.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
I had zero interest in the movie, I have less than zero interest in the musical. However, Spiderman is no longer the show I least want to see. I suppose that's something.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Well Lenox is now out and Sheryl Lee Ralph is in. We just lost a Tony winner. OUCH!
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello