The run closed June 4, 1978
- Opened
- May 14, 1978
- Closed
- June 4, 1978
- Performances
- 25
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 339th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it16 named
Susan Bigelow
Arny Freeman
Matthew Mcgrath
Lenora Nemetz
David Langston Smyrl
Brad Sullivan
Lynne Thigpen
Terri Treas
8 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Stephen Schwartz
- Choreographer
- Onna White
- Orchestrations
- credited to Kirk Nurock
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
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. 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.
May 14, 1978 Working S. Schwartz 357 Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 465
- In addition, she had unfortunate luck in the 1970s (aside from her witty, low-key musical staging in the hit / Love My Wife) with such credits as 70, Girls, 70; Goodtime Charley; and Working. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 210
- His fifth work, Working, initially worked out at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, where it needed work. The overproduced Broadway version opened cold in New York, with previews of the unpolished work-in-progress facing increasingly hostile audiences. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1008
- Hair can be seen as a bellwether for some of its key developments: the rock musical with spoken dialogue ( Godspell, Grease); the rock opera without (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita); the environmentally staged musical ( Candide revival, Cats); the plotless ensemble musical (A Chorus Line, Working). Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 551
- Mary Rodgers was twice nominated for a Tony, in 1960 and 1978 (Best Original score for Working). The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 190
- In 1978 she was in the cast of Schwartz’s short-lived musical Working. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 448
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Working at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.