A musical where secretaries belt about filing while Studs Terkel watches — capitalism's weirdest karaoke night.
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries, and cleaning women, Working is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.
Writing
Terke's verbatim interview lyrics hit harder than they should.
Acting
Scatman Crothers turns parking tickets into existential poetry.
Director
Stephen Schwartz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stephen Schwartz later wrote Wicked and Pippin — this was his 'serious' phase between Godspell and Disney dominance.
The 1978 book was banned in some schools for being 'too anti-capitalist'; the musical version softens nothing.
US
