First Wives Club -- The Musical is coming to Broadway!

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

Did 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!

Who is attached to direct this? Anyone?

Read this before you post again.

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The article clearly states who is directing.

LMAO, Diva. Can't. Breathe. Priceless.

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I liked the movie also and could see this as a great musical!

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Hopefully the producers saw Mermaid and will get a different director.

This 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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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.

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

Does ANYbody else miss musicals not based on movies? Yuck, I'm sick of this trend.

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.

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