New York City
The new musical is written by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel, and Michael Korie.
Two-time Tony winners Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole take the stage nightly in War Paint, a new musical about the cosmetics pioneers. Helena Rubenstein (LuPone) and Elizabeth Arden (Ebersole). Footage from the show has just been released, and you can watch it below.
Directed by Michael Greif and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, War Paint features a book by Doug Wright and score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie, the team behind the musical Grey Gardens, in which Ebersole starred. The cast also features Tony Award nominees John Dossett as Tommy Lewis (Arden’s husband and chief marketing officer) and Douglas Sills as Harry Fleming (Rubinstein’s clubby confidant and faithful ally).