For the second time, a musical adaptation of the hit 1996 film The First Wives Club based on Olivia Goldsmith's book is aiming for Broadway.
The show features a score by legendary Motown hitmakers Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland, and a new book by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of the long-running TV sitcom Designing Women.
Simon Phillips, who helmed the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Broadway musical and the original Melbourne production of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera sequel, will direct.
An earlier version of The First Wives Club, with a book by Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Curtains), premiered in 2009 at San Diego's Old Globe, but did not transfer to Broadway. Bloodworth-Thomason has based her new script on Holmes's earlier one, the original novel and the Paramount movie.
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