--- title: 'First Wives Club' Might Be Headed to Broadway description: The '90s female empowerment movie will be a musical canonical: https://time.com/2940884/first-wives-club-broadway/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-30T16:21:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:53:56.147Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'First Wives Club' Might Be Headed to Broadway og:description: The '90s female empowerment movie will be a musical og:url: https://time.com/2940884/first-wives-club-broadway/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1bddf3c8fdde97d/698699e6e53aba5fd54d3629/51658739.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Actresses Goldie Hawn (L), Diane Keaton (C) and Be og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'First Wives Club' Might Be Headed to Broadway twitter:description: The '90s female empowerment movie will be a musical twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1bddf3c8fdde97d/698699e6e53aba5fd54d3629/51658739.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _First Wives Club_ Might Be Headed to Broadway  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jun 30, 2014 4:21 PM UTC  Actresses Goldie Hawn (L), Diane Keaton (C) and Bette Midler (R), who all starred in the movie the "First Wives Club," rehearse for the 69th Academy Awards to held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California 24 March.( TIMOTHY A. -- CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) Actresses Goldie Hawn (L), Diane Keaton (C) and Bette Midler (R), who all starred in the movie the "First Wives Club," rehearse for the 69th Academy Awards to held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California 24 March.( TIMOTHY A. -- CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)TIMOTHY A. CLARY—AFP/Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jun 30, 2014 4:21 PM UTC A musical version of _The First Wives Club_ is set to be Chicago’s next pre-Broadway tryout, opening in the Loop next spring and possibly headed to Broadway for the 2015-2016 season. The new musical version of the 1996 revenge comedy starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton will have music by Holland-Dozier-Holland (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland,) who are famous for [writing hits](http://www.playbill.com/news/article/191953-First-Wives-Club-Musical-Eyes-Broadway-Run) for Marvin Gaye, the Four Tops, and the Supremes. The musical will be based off the 1996 movie as well as the 1992 Olivia Goldsmith novel that inspired it. The show will be written and produced by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, making her Broadway debut, but will draw heavily on an earlier musical version by Rupert Holmes, the Chicago _Tribune_ [reports. ](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/news/chi-first-wives-club-musical-to-try-out-in-chicago-20140630,0,3594123.column) “I really see this as my chance to do broad-shouldered women,” Bloodworth-Thomason told the _Tribune._ “I really love these three girls.” \[[_Playbill_](http://www.playbill.com/news/article/191953-First-Wives-Club-Musical-Eyes-Broadway-Run)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2940884/first-wives-club-broadway/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2940884/first-wives-club-broadway/"},"headline":"First Wives Club Might Be Headed to Broadway","datePublished":"2014-06-30T16:21:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:53:56.147Z","description":"The '90s female empowerment movie will be a musical","url":"https://time.com/2940884/first-wives-club-broadway/","keywords":["broadway","chicago","Theater"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1bddf3c8fdde97d/698699e6e53aba5fd54d3629/51658739.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1bddf3c8fdde97d/698699e6e53aba5fd54d3629/51658739.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actresses Goldie Hawn (L), Diane Keaton (C) and Be","caption":"Actresses Goldie Hawn (L), Diane Keaton (C) and Be","creditText":"TIMOTHY A. CLARY—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2940884/first-wives-club-broadway/","name":"First Wives Club Might Be Headed to Broadway"}}]}] ```