Justina Machado and Tatianna Córdoba will headline the new Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves, beginning performances April 1 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. April 27 is the opening date.
The new musical, based on the play by Josefina López and subsequent HBO film, has music, lyrics, and orchestrations by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez, a book by Lisa Loomer with Nell Benjamin, music supervision/orchestrations by Nadia DiGiallonardo, and direction and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
The show takes place in the summer of 1987 in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. After 18 years under the roof of her immigrant parents, Ana is ready to live her dreams of college and a career in New York City, but her family’s expectations would keep her home, working at their garment factory...READ MORE