NEW YORK (AP) β Tony Award-winner Faith Prince will lead the cast of “The First Wives Club” musical.
Producers said Wednesday that Prince will join Christine Sherrill and Carmen Cusack in the show, which makes its debut at Chicago’s Oriental Theater in February, with hopes it can come to Broadway in the 2015-2016 season.
The comedy about a trio of vengeful ex-spouses has been revamped and rewritten for the stage by Emmy Award-nominee Linda Bloodworth Thomason, the writer and producer of such TV shows as “Designing Women” and “Evening Shade.”
The 1996 film “The First Wives Club,” starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton, was based on Olivia Goldsmith’s novel about three women who are dumped by their powerful husbands for slim, young trophy wives.
