Working: The Musical Masterpiece

Based on the book by Studs Terkel in which interviews from American workers were adapted into a magnificent quilt of stories and songs by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, WORKING comes alive with a new, almost prescient vibrancy. Now, at last, in Director August Viverito’s LA Revival, WORKING’ is getting the loving, small-scale handling it was always meant to receive. Viverito will infuse his production with a ‘Waiting for Lefty’ sense of urgency and consequence as we explore the immense effect work has on self worth. This new vision, streamlined to 90 minutes, is an unpretentious re-imagining that digs out the poignant internal struggles in the bedrock American lives it seeks to explore. And into the individual casualties that the ‘Occupy’ marchers are striving to give voice to. Finally, Viverito believes, …it’s time for WORKING.