, and Tony Award nominee go head-to-head with Tony Award winner as Brenda, Wicked star Carmen Cusack as Annie and Mamma Mia!鈥檚 Christine Sherrill as Elise, playing first husbands Morty, Bill and Aaron, respectively.
Performances will continue through March 29.
Other members of the Club include , , Patrick Richwood, and an ensemble featuring Lindsey Alley, , Terron Brooks, Patch David, , Emilee Dupr茅, Rachel Fairbanks, Aaron Gordon, Tessa Grady, , Patrick Oliver Jones, Amy Hillner Larsen, , Paul Nygro, Jeffrey Pew, Rebecca Poff, Brett Thiele, Kara Tremel, Morgan Weed and Alison Woods.
Music arranger and producer H.B. Barnum has joined the First Wives Club creative team as arranger and orchestrator; Kenny Seymour serves as musical director. Casting is by Telsey + Company/Craig Burns, CSA.
With a book by five-time Emmy Award nominee Linda Bloodworth Thomason and direction by , First Wives Club: The Musical features new original songs and classic hits by Motown legends Holland-Dozier-Holland, including "Reach Out鈥'll Be There," "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)." David Connolly choreographs. In First Wives Club, press notes state, "three former college friends reunite to find that they have more in common than their alma mater! Ditched by their respective husbands for younger women, they band together to settle scores with the men who did them wrong. First Wives Club is a hilarious, inspiring, and empowering story about friendship at its strongest... and revenge at its sweetest."
The musical is based on the hit 1996 Paramount feature film and the original best-selling novel by Olivia Goldsmith, and adapted from an earlier version of the musical by , with additional material by Simon Phillips.
Tickets for the Chicago premiere are available at or by visiting .
