Working
Shows · Working
Based on Studs Terkel's bestselling book, ordinary Americans — a waitress, a steelworker, a schoolteacher, a firefighter — step forward to describe their daily jobs, their frustrations, and small triumphs. Through monologues and songs, these workers paint an honest portrait of working-class America.
- Opened
- 1978
- Performances
- 25
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1978 | 46th Street Theatre Original. May 14, 1978 · Stephen Schwartz | 24 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Working (2012 Revised Version) matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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28 passages naming Working, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
In addition, she had unfortunate luck in the 1970s (aside from her witty, low-key musical staging in the hit / Love My Wife) with such credits as 70, Girls, 70; Goodtime Charley; and Working. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p210
His fifth work, Working, initially worked out at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, where it needed work. The overproduced Broadway version opened cold in New York, with previews of the unpolished work-in-progress facing increasingly hostile audiences. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1008
Hair can be seen as a bellwether for some of its key developments: the rock musical with spoken dialogue ( Godspell, Grease); the rock opera without (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita); the environmentally staged musical ( Candide revival, Cats); the plotless ensemble musical (A Chorus Line, Working). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p551
Mary Rodgers was twice nominated for a Tony, in 1960 and 1978 (Best Original score for Working). book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p190
In 1978 she was in the cast of Schwartz’s short-lived musical Working. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p448
After the out-of-town closing of The Baker’s Wife and the quick closing Working, she rocketed to the top with her performance as Eva Peron in Hal Prince’s Evita. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p101
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