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News Listen to Songs from Revamped London Run of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Tamsin Greig and Haydn Gwynne Several songs have been released from the West End premiere of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the David Yazbek-Jeffrey Lane musical based on the Pedro Almodovar film.

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Haydn Gwynne

The Broadway production of Women on the Verge, which opened Nov. 4, 2010, at the Belasco Theatre was short-lived. The musical played 30 previews and 69 performances when it closed Jan. 2, 2011.

Tony Award-winning director , who helmed the elaborate Broadway production, is also staging the London premiere, which has been refocused and re-imagined on a more intimate scale. Performances begin Dec. 16 at the Playhouse Theatre.

The cast includes , Ricardo Alfonso, Haydn Oakley, Tamsin Greig, , J茅r么me Pradon, Anna Skellern, Marianne Benedict, Holly James, Michael Matus, Rebecca McKinnis, , Alastair Natkiel, Nuno Queimado and Dale Rapley.

Based on the Academy Award-nominated 1988 film by Almodovar, the musical was adapted for the stage by Tony Award-nominated collaborators Yazbek (music and lyrics) and Lane (book).

The musical includes such songs as "Madrid," "Lie to Me," "Lovesick," "Time Stood Still," "Model Behavior," "My Crazy Heart," "The Microphone," "Island," "On the Verge," "Mother's Day," "Invisible" and "Talk to Me."

The New York premiere boasted , , and .

Listen to tracks from the London production below:

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