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Change on the way with Menopause: The Musical
Tom Teodorczuk, Evening Standard27 Nov 2006
A musical based on the theme of the menopause is to hit London early next year.
Producers of Menopause: The Musical describe it as a "hilarious celebration of women and The Change". A cult hit in America, it opens at the Shaw Theatre, Euston, in February.
The music is based on pop hits - Staying Alive becomes Staying Awake and I Heard It Through The Grapevine is altered to I Ain't No Longer 39.
The action centres on four women, Earth Mother, Soap Star, Power Woman and Iowa Housewife, who meet at New York's Bloomingdales department store.
Themes it explores include Hormone Replacement Therapy, plastic surgery and chocolate binges.
Creator Jeanie Linders said: "Most women know intuitively every other woman is experiencing the memory loss or night sweats or hot flashes.
"They talk about it with friends and, on occasion, with their spouses. But, when they're in a theatre with hundreds of women all shouting, 'that's me!' then they know what they are experiencing is normal."
