The Women of Tin Pan Alley

The Women of Tin Pan Alley is a one-act, one-woman revue of popular songs from the first half of the Twentieth Century, with a twist: They’re all written in whole or in part by women. Joanne Schmoll, familiar to TACT audiences as Venus in One Touch of Venus and a soloist in Call Me Mister, has assembled a wonderfully diverse group of standards, comic songs, ballads, and new finds.

With songs like ‘Willow, Weep For Me’, ‘How High the Moon’, and ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Made’ you will come away surprised at how many songs you already know were written by women.

The revue is embellished with quotations from the composers themselves and from those who knew them and their work. Reenie Codelka is the musical accompanist to Schmoll. The Women of Tin Pan Alley is presented during the run of Drama Under the Influence, TACT’s evening of one-act plays written by women during the same years.