#Stephen schwartz music series

Candy Cottingham says that she needs to separate people from their jobs for her job as a political fundraiser. His mother, Kate Rushton, a housewife, who complains that people doubt her intelligence because she chooses to stay at home and look after her family (Just a Housewife). After he leaves, John Rushton delivers the newspaper and tells of his dreams for the future (Neat to be a Newsboy). In the neighborhood, Conrad Swibel is on his UPS delivery route, talking about the perks of his job: meeting women, and the bad parts, getting chased by dogs.

Her bag boy, Roberto Núñez, is unhappy with the music that is playing in the market, which is the Cuban Revolution celebratory song along with the hardships of working on a farm and hopes a better day will come (Un Mejor Día Vendrá). Babe explains that her job requires work from every part of the body (I'm Just Movin). She remembers a student of hers, Babe Secoli, who is now a checker at the Treasure Island Supermarket. Rose Hoffman, a teacher who has one year left until retirement, is unhappy with the changes she sees in the school system (Nobody Tells Me How). She has a strained relationship with her boss, Rex Winship, who tells us he wants to be a teacher. Amanda McKenny is displeased that people stereotype her with her job. On top of the parking lot there is an office building. He parks the cars and states that he has been parking cars his whole life, and probably will for the rest of his life (Lovin Al). Some of the cars stop at an office building where Al Calinda, a parking lot attendant is working. Some people get caught in a (Traffic Jam) on the highway. Mike Dillard, a steelworker, talks about the dangers of his job. In the morning all the workers are getting ready for their jobs (All the Livelong Day). The show's European premier was in London at the Southwark Playhouse, from 2 June to 8 July 2017. The show's Asian premiere was in Singapore, performed by LASALLE College of the Arts at the Creative Cube in September 2011. Schwartz revised the musical with Greenberg, which includes two new songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. It had 'developmental productions' directed by Gordon Greenberg at Asolo Repertory Theatre, Sarasota, Florida in May 2008 and at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California, in March 2009. Again directed by Gordon Greenberg, it won a special ensemble Drama Desk Awards the cast features Joe Cassidy, Donna Lynne Champlin, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Nehal Joshi and Kenita Miller. The production opened Off-Broadway at the 59E59 Theaters on December 12, 2012, after previews which started on December 1, 2012. The cast features Gene Weygandt, Barbara Robertson, Emjoy Gavin, and E. Ī further revised version opened at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, Chicago, starting in February 2011 in previews through June, with direction and revisions by Gordon Greenberg. In March 1999, it was presented at Long Wharf Theater, New Haven, Connecticut, with direction by Christopher Ashley. The musical has undergone several revisions. It has been done there again this century.

#Stephen schwartz music series

In 1982, Schwartz and Nina Faso adapted the show for a ninety-minute telecast on the PBS series American Playhouse, directed by Schwartz and Kirk Browning and introduced by Terkel.īefore the revisions, it was done as an amateur production by Kent State University, Trumbull Campus, Summer Stock. It was directed by Schwartz and choreographed by Onna White, with a cast featuring Patti LuPone, Bob Gunton, Joe Mantegna, Lynne Thigpen, David Patrick Kelly, Robin Lamont, Steven Boockvor, Rex Everhart, Bobo Lewis, Lenora Nemetz, Brad Sullivan, Matt Landers, David Smyrl, Terri Treas, Matt McGrath and Arny Freeman, an actor who was interviewed in the book. It then was produced on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre, opening on where it ran for 24 performances and 12 previews. The musical was first staged at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from December 1977 through February 1978. The musical is based on the Studs Terkel book Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974), which has interviews with people from different regions and occupations. Working is a musical with a book by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, music by Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, and James Taylor, and lyrics by Schwartz, Carnelia, Grant, Taylor, and Susan Birkenhead.