San Diego's Old Globe Theatre will host director Francesca Zambello's world premiere production of The First Wives Club next summer. The new musical, featuring a score by the legendary Motown songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland and a book by Rupert Holmes, will run from July 15 to August 23, 2009.
Based on the 1996 feature film starring Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn, The First Wives Club tells the story of three spurned wives determined to get their revenge. No casting has been set.
Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, have not worked together for decades. The trio was behind such '60s hits as the Supremes' "Stop! In the Name of Love," the Four Tops' "Reach Out I'll Be There" and Martha and the Vandellas' "Love Is Like a Heat Wave." Holmes, a Tony winner for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was most recently represented on Broadway by Curtains and had a number one hit for writing and performing "Escape The Piña Colada Song."
The Globe is partnering with commercial producers Paul Lambert and Jonas Neilson on the show, according to a story in the San Diego Times-Union.
