Musical of Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in Development at LCT

Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher is working with Pedro Almodóvar to develop a musical version of the Spanish film director’s 1988 hit comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown for Lincoln Center Theater, according to The New York Times. Almodóvar will spend a week in June at LCT working on the show with composer David Yazbek and librettist Jeffrey Lane Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Almodóvar told reporters in Cannes on May 19 that the musical is making progress, though no date has been set for production. “The dialogues are done, the songs are almost finished,” he said, according to the Associated Press. Actors are reportedly being assembled for a reading of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown during the director's visit to New York, and Sher told the Times he hopes the show will be ready for a run next year.

A Tony Award winner for LCT’s revival of South Pacific, Sher is nominated for a 2009 Tony for directing the company’s revival of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.