Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the Musical?



MADRID - A European theater operator wants to produce a musical version of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's 1988 movie "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", one of its executives said Sunday.
"I have talked about the project with him, and it was also proposed that it be staged on Broadway, but he remains silent," Julia Gomez Cora, Spanish director for Stage Entertainment told the daily newspaper Publico.



Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the Musical?
"He has not said yes or no, but let's be realistic, Almodovar is reluctant. But I will continue to insist," she added.
Almodovar's film, a melodramatic tragedy mixed with frenetic comedy, helped launch Almodovar's international career. It also helped boost the careers of its stars, Carmen Maura and Antonia Banderas.
It tells the tale of a depressed woman's efforts to track down her ex-lover to find out why he left her and includes a famous scene involving a blender full of gazpacho spiked with sleeping pills.
Almodovar 17th film, "Los Abrazos Rotos" or "Broken Embraces", opened in Spain last month.
Stage Entertainment owns theatres, theatre productions and venues throughout the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Russia, Italy, France and Spain.
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Monday, April 13th 2009
AFP
           


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