The Off-Broadway Smash Hit Menopause The Musical® Returns to Philadelphia For One Week Only, Sept. 29 – Oct. 4 at the Kimmel Center
AUGUST 24, 2009
Inspired by a hot flash and a bottle of wine, Menopause The Musical® will make its Kimmel Center premiere beginning
Single tickets at $49.50 are on sale now and can be purchased by calling 215-731-3333, online at www.kimmelcenter.org/broadway, or at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce Sts., (open daily 10am to 6pm). Tickets can also be purchased online at www.menopausethemusical.com. Discounted prices for groups of 10+ are also available by calling 215-790-5883.
Performances include: Tuesday – Thursday evenings at 7:30pm; Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm; Sunday evenings at 6:30pm; matinees Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 1pm.
A Philadelphia favorite, MenopauseThe Musical® last played to sold-out houses at the Society Hill Playhouse from 2004 to 2008. The show, which has become an international phenomenon was written by Jeanie Linders and is produced by South Florida-based GFour Productions. Menopause The Musical® has been seen by over 11 million people all over the world since it debuted in a 76-seat perfume-shop-turned-theatre in Orlando, Florida in 2001.
Billed as "The Hilarious Celebration of Women and The Change®," the original, off-Broadway musical begins with four women, "Professional Woman," "Soap Star," "Iowa Housewife" and "Earth Mother," at a Bloomingdale’s lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra - and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex and day-to-day challenges with aging parents, aging children and aging partners.
They share their ups and downs through a collection of 25 re-lyricized baby boomer songs from the 60's, 70's and 80s. Disco hit "Stayin’ Alive" becomes "Stayin’ Awake," Motown favorite "My Guy" is transformed into "My Thighs," "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" switches to "In the Guest Room or on the Sofa, My Husband Sleeps at Night," and "Puff The Magic Dragon" becomes the anthem to exercise, Puff, My God I’m Draggin.'"
"It may not be Shakespeare, but our focus is different. We want to bring women together and empower them. This is an event – a happening," says Kathi Glist, one of the show’s producers. "It resonates with just about any woman over 40, but it is enjoyed by all. And the younger women laugh just as hard," she adds. "It’s a party every night!"
"The show has become a point of relating, a celebration of a life passage that launches women into a new exciting phase of their lives," says Linders. "Most women know intuitively what every other woman is facing with the onset of the menopause. They talk about it with their friends and, on occasion, with their spouses. But, when they are in a theatre with hundreds of women, and they’re all shouting ‘That’s me!’ then they know what they are experiencing is normal. They call it a sisterhood!"
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