Pedro Almodóvar, Bartlett Sher and Rossy de Palma take part in post show talk for Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown

To celebrate the UK première of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s new musical comedy adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-nominated film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – now playing live on stage in London’s West End – Pedro Almodóvar will be taking part in a conversation with director Bartlett Sher and star of the original film Rossy de Palma.  Esteemed film critic Maria Delgado will chair the panel.

This unique event will be broadcast across the country live via satellite in partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas, alongside a screening of the original 1988 film. There will be an opportunity for the public to ask Pedro and the panel a question by tweeting @womenvergeuk and @picturehouses.

Tickets for the show and Q&A live on stage from 7.30pm at the Playhouse Theatre are now on sale at womenonthevergemusical.com or on 0844 871 7631. The Q&A will follow the performance.

Further Casting announced for WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Released today is ‘Madrid’, the exuberant opening number from David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s score for the new stage adaptation of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Capturing the humour, colour and chaos of Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-nominated film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown opens at the Playhouse Theatre on 12 January 2015, with previews from 16 December 2014 and is directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher. 

Powered by a live onstage band this smart new musical comedy boasts an international cast: Ricardo Afonso, Haydn Oakley and Willemijn Verkaik now join the previously announced Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne, Jérôme Pradon and Anna Skellern. Additional cast includes Marianne Benedict, Holly James, Michael Matus, Rebecca McKinnis, Sarah Moyle, Alastair Natkiel, Nuno Queimado and Dale Rapley.

Further casting announced for upcoming West End premiere of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Hadyn Gwynne, Jerome Pradon and Anna Skellern are joining Tamsin Greig (pictured) in the upcoming West End premiere of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher, the show is adapted by David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane of Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-nominated film of the same title.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown runs for 20 weeks at The Playhouse Theatre from 12 January 2015 (previews from 20 December).

FIRST LOOK: Tamsin Greig as Pepa Marcos in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Tamsin Greig as ‘Pepa Marcos’ in the forthcoming musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.   Tamsin as you’ve never seen her before.  The show opens at the Playhouse Theatre on 12 January, with previews from 20 December.

Also please see the BEHIND-THE-SCENES video of Tamsin’s ‘transformation': 

Tamsin Greig to make musical debut in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbeck's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a musical adaptation of the Spanish movie of the same name by Pedro Almodovar, which closed early on Broadway in 2011, is set to open in London. According to The Daily Mail, the tuner, starring Olivier winner Tamsin Greig, will begin previews on on December 20, with opening night set for January 12, 2015 at the Playhouse Theatre. Bartlett Sher, who directed the Great White Way incarnation, will helm the reworked, scaled down, U.K. production.

Greig won the Olivier for Much Ado About Nothing and received an Olivier nod for The Little Dog Laughed. Her screen credits include Green Wing, Black Books, Episodes and Emma.

Tamsin Greig said: "I am excited, thrilled and terrified to have been invited to collaborate with artists of the calibre of Pedro Almodóvar, Bart Sher, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane to perform in a musical. If it's true that you are only as good as the company you keep, then I am in very safe hands. And I feel very fortunate to have been encouraged – well, bullied – by my agent to have singing lessons, to learn new skills and to experience other creative mediums. I have also run out of excuses why I can't do it!"