Almodovar!!!!!

most musicals i can definitely pass on, but this is A-Okay with me! :)

also so excited for a new guare piece and War Horse finally making its way to the US. 

Spectacular. 

Lincoln Center to Stage an Almodóvar Musical

By PATRICK HEALY

Published: February 18, 2010

The new musical “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” based on the 1988 Pedro Almodóvar film, and the acclaimed British production of the play “War Horse” will be two of the major shows of the 2010-11 season at Lincoln Center Theater, executives there said on Thursday.

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“War Horse” and its life-size puppets head to Lincoln Center.

Lincoln Center Theater also said that its long-running production of “South Pacific,” which won the Tony Awardfor best musical revival in 2008, would close at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Aug. 22 to make way for a new drama, “A Free Man of Color,” by John Guare, which will be followed in the Beaumont by “War Horse.”

“South Pacific,” which has brought in more than $80 million since its first performance in March 2008, has been a substantial money-maker for Lincoln Center Theater, helping cushion the not-for-profit organization at a time when many similar groups were laying off staff or even cutting back on the number of productions.

The relatively healthy financial position of Lincoln Center Theater has also helped in creating the musical “Women on the Verge,” which its director, Bartlett Sher (“South Pacific”), developed at workshops for more than year with Mr. Almodóvar; the book writer Jeffrey Lane (“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”); and the composer and lyricist David Yazbek (“The Full Monty”).

“Women on the Verge,” about the overlapping romantic and personal travails of a group of women in late-20th-century Madrid, is scheduled to begin previews on Oct. 2 on Broadway at the Belasco Theater, with an opening night set for Nov. 4.

“A Free Man of Color,” directed by George C. Wolfe (“Angels in America”), is scheduled to begin previews at the Beaumont on Oct. 21 and to open on Nov. 18. The Public Theaterwas originally set to produce this latest play by Mr. Guare (“Six Degrees of Separation”) early last year, but that plan fell through after the Public was not able to secure the financing to mount the play.

In a statement Lincoln Center Theater described the play as “a freewheeling epic” set in New Orleans in the early 19th century against the backdrop of the Louisiana Purchase, with the title character as a “New World Don Juan” who becomes caught up in historical events.

No closing date was announced for “A Free Man of Color,” but it will be followed into the Beaumont by “War Horse,” the World War I-era story of a British boy, Albert, and his beloved horse, Joey, who is sold to the cavalry to fight in France — where Albert eventually goes as an underage enlistee to find him.

“War Horse” will be a transfer of the National Theater production in London, where the show had its premiere in 2007 before moving to the West End in 2009. The play is adapted by Nick Stafford from the novel by Michael Morpurgo; the production is directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris.

The National Theater production features life-size puppets as the horses, maneuvered by multiple actors, and requiring a relatively big theater stage like the Beaumont. The show will be a co-production of Lincoln Center Theater and the National Theater, in association with the commercial producer Bob Boyett, who has a first-look agreement on National Theater shows.

“War Horse” is scheduled to begin previews on March 17, 2011, with an opening date of April 14.

The casts and designers for all three productions will be announced later.