‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’ is a new musical in London’s West End based on Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 cult movie. <br /><br /> The show has been adapted to the stage by Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek, who also turned films like ‘The Full Monty’ into musicals. <br /><br /> The award-winning Spanish filmmaker was beaming on opening night: “This is completely new – that a Spanish movie becomes a musical in English, this is completely historical. So I feel very proud of this movie,” said Almodóvar. <br /><br /> The story centres on Madrid resident Pepa, whose world falls apart when her married lover leaves her for his second mistress. <br /><br /> Yazbek’s Spanish-flavoured music sets the pace, contributing to the musical’s dizzy sense of life falling apart.<br /><br /> “The key with any kind of musical is that you want to find something that has a reason to sing, a reason where speaking won’t do anymore and you have to start singing. And there’s a passion in Pedro’s work and a craziness in his work and a uniqueness in his wor
