Revised "Working" to premiere at Asolo in FL

yeah this sound interesting! Could be really cool.

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Thrilling!

I *love* WORKING. And I love Lin-Manuel Miranda.

A Broadway revival, even a limited run by a non-profit, would be so welcome here.

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I've never heard this
Ever

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I really like Working. Even as a kid, when you'd think it would have bored me to tears, I used to watch that PBS video of it. The hooker fascinated me to no end.

James Taylor did ok with Un Mejor Dia Vendra and Brother Trucker, but man he nailed it with Millwork. Staged well, that can one amazing scene. I think Schwartz's work on It's an Art is the best he's ever done. The one song I've never seen work quite right is Nobody Tells Me How.

I saw a production of the last set of revisions a few years ago, and it still works. At least as well as it always did, anyway. Somehow it never quite comes together to be greater than the sum of its parts, but it always touches me.

The best production I've seen did something very cool with Fathers and Sons. The one guy still sang it, but he was joined and backed in the choruses by the old man playing Joe and the young newsboy (this production was of the old script that had him in it), creating three generations onstage. So when he sang of his father and his son, there they were, and in that moment he was a father to the boy and a son to his dad. The light moved in the final moments from the old man, the adult man, and finally ended on the boy during "I give it to my kid." Very moving.

--"As long as they don't cut "Just a Housewife" or "If I Could've Been."

Who else is in love with Lynne Thigpen on the OBCR?"
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I'm with you, husk_charmer! Those two songs are musts! "Just a Housewife STILL makes me sob every time I hear it (and I DID the show). Lynne Thigpen is incredible on both "If I Could've Been" and "Cleaning Women." What a talent. We lost her to soon.

I saw the Actor's Fund concert version last year and I really liked what they did with involving the crew, although I wish they did it throughout the whole show. I did the show in high school (I was Mike) and I just love it!

I did the show back in college and played Frank Decker, the truck driver. I sang "Brother Trucker" and "Fathers and Sons." And Jay Karnes from "The Shield" was our fireman. Our housewife ended up in Les Mis, etc. It was a good cast. Our director played around with the staging and integrated the characters into each other's scenes. It had a great flow to it, and made it very compelling, rather than a series of disjointed, isolated "confessions."

It can be a much better show than people realize. The material is very solid, and it's the kind of show that can appeal to a very wide audience.

I wish them the best of luck with this. "Working" should be considered a much better musical than it is.

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"It can be a much better show than people realize. The material is very solid, and it's the kind of show that can appeal to a very wide audience.

I wish them the best of luck with this. "Working" should be considered a much better musical than it is.
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I completely agree, best12bars.

I love this show! This sounds like a great idea. I keep on trying to get theaters to produce it, but no one bites.

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I've never seen this show before nor have I ever heard the cast recording of it. But there is a local theatre around where I live that is producing it and I'm going to go see it. This thread has made me really excited to see it. Plus I know two people in the cast....a friend of mine is playing the female business executive and my vocal teacher is playing the waitress.

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