Menopause The Musical

Book & new lyrics by Jeanie Linders

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Plot Summary & Audition Tips

List of Characters in Menopause

Menopause Off-Broadway Cast Recording

Modern day New York. Four women 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 more.

The songs in Menopause are parodies of "baby boomer" pop hits. You should audition with a pop tune from the same era.

Four women over the age of 40:

• a cell-phone-talking power executive with a sophisticated cynicism that is both sharp and saucy. she impersonates Aretha Franklin.
• an aging soap star obsessed with wrinkles who impersonates Marilyn Monroe.
• a sort of earth mother stuck in the sixties, bumblingly engaging.
• a housewife from Ohio in town to see the sights and shop. Her comic timing is impeccable, she is a master of physical comedy, and she has the wild eyes and rubber face of a Lucille Ball.

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Audition Preparation Materials

List of Songs in Menopause

• Overture
• Change, Change, Change
• I Heard It Through The Grapevine
• Sign of the Times
• Stayin' Awake/Night Sweatin'
• My Husband Sleeps Tonight
• Hot Flash
• Drippin' and Droppin'
• I'm Flashing
• The Great Pretender
• Snae and Normal Girls/Thank You Doctor
• Lookin' For Food
• Please Make Me Over
• Beauty
• Puff, My God I'm Draggin'
• The Work-Out Medley: The Fat Gram Song/My Thighs/Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Body
• I'm No Babe, Ma
• Good Vibrations
• What's Love Got To Do With It
• Only You
• New Attitude
• This Is Your Day!