Tyler Perry's Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned, the latest play written, directed and produced by the indefatigable playwright, filmmaker and TV producer, is scheduled to open September 18, 2014 at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, then travel to New York's Beacon Theater for a brief stand of six performances October 9-12.
Billed as a "musical play," the show concerns two sisters. After Mona gets married, Anita, a successful single woman who tends to take the caregiver role in the family, meets someone who appears to be the man of her dreams online. After a Las Vegas wedding the truth begins to come out, and Anita turns into something she didn't expect.
The show stars Cheryl Pepsii Riley as Anita, Ray Lavender, Monica Blaire, Zebulon Ellis, Candice Pye as Mona, Muhammad Ayers and Olrick Johnson.
Cheryl Pepsii Riley is known for her number one R&B single "Thanks for My Child" from 1988. After a successful music career lasting several years, she re-emerged to act in a number of Tyler Perry's productions, including the plays Madea's Class Reunion, Madea Goes to Jail, Why Did I Get Married?, Laugh to Keep from Crying, Madea's Big Happy Family and A Madea Christmas. She also appeared in Perry's film versions of Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Big Happy Family.
There's no "Madea" in Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned, and Perry himself won't be appearing in the production, though he has taken the stage in about half the plays he's done since 1999, and that's a lot – at least one new stage work in just about every year of the past decade and a half.
