Patti LuPone and Sherie Rene Scott Join Next Reading of Upcoming Musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott, Tom Hewitt and Oscar Isaac are on board for the next reading of upcoming tuner Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, according to Variety. As previously announced, composer/lyricist David Yazbek and librettist Jeffrey Lane’s musical version of Pedro Almodovar's Spanish film will be presented by Lincoln Center Theater. Directed by Bartlett Sher, the show will play Broadway’s Belasco Theatre, with previews starting on October 2.

The 2009 reading of the musical featured Salma Hayek, Jessica Biel, Matthew Morrison and Paulo Szot. Biel will return for the new reading, which begins rehearsals next week. Chita Rivera has also been mentioned as a participant.

LuPone’s most recent Broadway credit was her Tony-winning turn in the 2008 revival of Gypsy. Scott, who most recently appeared on the New York stage in the semi-autobiographical solo show Everyday Rapture off-Broadway, was a headliner of Yazbek and Lane’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Stage vet Isaac will appear in the upcoming film Robin Hood.

A screwball comedy that revolves around an actress who is jilted by her lover, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was released in 1988, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is set to officially open on November 4, 2010.