New York City Center has had great success with its Encores! and Encores! Off-Center programs where they present musicals in concert form. In the Encores! Off-Center program, they take ground-breaking musicals from the past and reimagine them for the present. I just wish they hadn’t chosen the occasion of City Center’s 75th Anniversary to reimagine Working: A Musical into a self-congratulatory... Read more
New York City Center kicks off its 2019 Encores! Off-Center season with a new production of Working: A Musical, directed by Encores! Off-Center Artistic Director Anne Kauffman and featuring two brand new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Running time:
1hr 30mins (no intermission)
Categories:
Working: A Musical Image and Video Gallery
8 images About Working: A Musical:
An impassioned documentation of the people who make American run, Working explores the lives of working class men and women who are so often taken for granted. Based on the Studs Terkel best-selling book, the musical has gone through several updates—the latest of which adds two songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda to an already illustrious list of songwriters.
Working: A Musical CAST AND CREATIVE
By:
Based on the book by Studs Terkel, adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, with additional contributions by Gordon Greenberg
Producer:
New York City Center
Director:
Anne Kauffman
Songs by:
Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkhead, and James Taylor
Choreography:
Avihai Haham
Cast list:
Andrea Burns, Mateo Ferro, David Garrison, Helen Hunt, Christopher Jackson, Javier Muñoz, and Tracie Thoms
Other info:
Music Direction by Alvin Hough, Jr.
New York City Center
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