Broadway'sReal Women Have CurvesDebuts Music Video for Opening Number 'Make It Work' — Watch (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Real Women Have Curvesis being adapted into a new stage musical, and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at a music video for the Broadway show’s opening number, “Make It Work.”

Like Josefina López’s 1990 play and its hit 2002America Ferrera-led film of the same name,Real Women Have Curves: The Musicaltells the story of Mexican-American teenager Ana Garcia (Córdoba), who — in the summer of 1987 — has her sights set on college away from her home in East Los Angeles. But when her family’s garment business receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses, Ana is forced to juggle her own ambitions with her mother’s expectations.

The cast of ‘Real Women Have Curves: The Musical’.Real Women Have Curves: The Musical.

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical.

“Make It Work” jumps into that conflict from the start, as the community of seamstresses set their determination to fulfill that outstanding order no mater what the odds. Estela (Cuenca), Ana’s older sister and owner of the Garcia Sewing Factory, leads the tune with the duo’s mom Carmen (Machado) joining in the chorus.

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Real Women Have Curves: The Musicalalso stars Mason Reeves and Mauricio Mendoza. Rounding out the company are Ariana Burks, Quincy Hampton, Zeus Mendoza, Claudia Mulet, Christopher M. Ramirez, Monica Tulia Ramirez, Shadia Fairuz, Elisa Galindez and Omar Madden.

Burks, Córdoba, Cuenca, Fairuz, Galindez, Hampton, Jimenez, Madden, Mayagoitia, Mendoza, Mulet, Reeves and Valls are all making their Broadway debuts in the production. It’s also the first Broadway credit for Huerta, Velez and book writer Lisa Loomer (the later who collaborated with Nell Benjamin on the projected).

Performances forReal Women Have Curves: The Musicalbeing at theJames Earl Jones Theatrein New York City onApril 1. The musical officially opens April 27.

Its Broadway transfer comes after a successful premiere at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T) at Harvard University in 2023.

Tickets forReal Women Have Curvesis now on sale.

source: people.com