Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

• Original Broadway Production (2010)
  New York, NY
• London Production (2014)
  London, England

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• My Crazy Heart
• Lie to Me
• Lovesick
• Time Stood Still
• Model Behavior
• Island
• The Microphone
• On the Verge
• Madrid
• Mother's Day
• Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today
• Tangled
• Invisible
• Marisa/The Chase

Cut during previews

• Shoes from Heaven

Based on the 1988 film by Pedro Almodóvar

Both touching and hilarious, it's a story about women and the men who pursue them...finding them, losing them, needing them, and rejecting them. At the center is Pepa whose friends and lovers are blazing a trail through 1980s Madrid. And why do they all keep showing up at her high-rise apartment? Is it her gazpacho? Along with Pepa, there's her missing (possibly philandering) lover, Ivan; his ex-wife of questionable sanity, Lucia; Pepa's friend, Candela, and her terrorist boyfriend; a power-suited lawyer plus a taxi driver who dispenses tissues, mints and advice in equal proportion. Mayhem and comic madness abound, balanced by the empathy and heart.

Composer/lyricist David Yazbek revealed in an interview with thecraptacular.com that he and librettist Jeffrey Lane were rewriting the show in anticipation of a London production. No announcement for the production has been made. [5/24/2012]

• Women on the Verge (shorter title)