"Working" the musical- Page 2

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 12:03pm

I did this show in the late 1980's, with the original script. I played the Gas Meter reader, who, from the comments I'm reading here, seems to have been replaced by a UPS guy. Love the show! Saw a revival about three years ago with the revised script.

Meh.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 12:46pm

I've been leary of the PBS video, since I know Lynne's not doing the cleaning woman.

We did the old script, and being a High School had to cut portions of the fireman's monologue, do some racial changes and delete the call girl.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 1:12pm

The graduating class of the NTC (National Theatre Conservatory) here in Denver is doing it as one of their final two shows this winter. It will be nice to see it onstage. I have only seen the PBS version. And that was years ago.

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 1:18pm

We had Joe and the newsboy in Fathers and Sons as well! That was one of my all time favorite songs to perform.

[broadwaybelle]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 11:31am

I was in WORKING my sophomore year of high school and I had a blast! It's such a fun show!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 11:38am

The PBS video is clunky (although Barbara Hershey is wonderful as the hooker). I do love much of the music in this show, however.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 6:11pm

It is better than having no recording of it

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 6:42pm

I really like the show, but it's not without problems. No one seems to know how to play "Nobody Tells Me How." Filichia says the authors intended it to be funny, but everyone I've seen play it makes it pitiful. The Mason is a great song, but theatrically it sort of falls flat. The Millworker is really the best piece of writing in the whole show.

[JRybka]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 6:45pm

No one has mentioned the two best songs in the whole show...

Just a Housewife
and
If I Could Have Been....

I wish they would update the show again.

[Jon]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 7:26pm

I worked on a production in early 2002. obviously, 9/11/01 was still fresh in everyone's mind. The final monologue leading into "Something to Point To" - where the steel worker looks at the skyscraper and says that the names of everyone who helped build it should be engraved on the side - really had an impact.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 7:32pm

I also liked Fathers & Sons & It's An Art

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 8:22pm

It's an Art....no THAT'S a fine a piece of songwriting, right there.

[BNN]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 9:38pm

Just a Housewife absolutely killed when we did the show, the girl that sang really did a terrific job, and it helped that our audience was mostly adults who had come out to see the show.

It seems that adults obiviously connect with the show alot more than kids do, but that's understandable.