Here's how producer Lincoln Center Theater bills Women on the Verge: "Both touching and hilarious, it's a story about women and the men who pursue them... finding them, losing them, needing them, and rejecting them. At the center is Pepa whose friends and lovers are blazing a trail through 1980s Madrid. And why do they all keep showing up at her high-rise apartment? Is it her gazpacho? Along with Pepa, there's her missing (possibly philandering) lover, Ivan; his ex-wife of questionable sanity, Lucia; Pepa's friend, Candela, and her terrorist boyfriend; a power-suited lawyer plus a taxi driver who dispenses tissues, mints and advice in equal proportion. Mayhem and comic madness abound, balanced by the empathy and heart that are trademarks of Almodóvar's work. And of director Bartlett Sher's too."
Here is a new set of promo shots featuring the main characters:
Front: Laura Benanti, Patti LuPone and Sherie Rene Scott
The David Yazbek-Jeffrey Lane musical features Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture, The Little Mermaid), two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone (Evita, Gypsy), Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss Me, Kate, Ragtime), Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy, In the Next Room), Tony nominee Danny Burstein (South Pacific), Tony nominee de'Adre Aziza (Passing Strange), Tony nominee Mary Beth Peil (Nine, Sunday in the Park With George), Justin Guarini ("American Idol") and Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Seussical).
For tickets visit LCT.org, or phone Telecharge at (212) 239-6200. The Belasco Theatre is located at 111 West 44th Street.
