WORKING Receives Benefit Concert
As WICKED continues to take over the world - a Republican congressman actually talked about it yesterday in the floor in his attempt to defame the Iraq opposition bill - the earlier works of Stephen Schwartz will steadily gain more attention. In fact, believe it or not, there has not been a single Broadway revival yet of a Stephen Schwartz musical, though one expects GODSPELL or PIPPIN to eventually be revived.
WORKING, Schwartz's 1970s song cycle based on Stud Terkel's opus about ordinary, everyday Americans at work, will receive an overdue revival - albeit in the form of the next of the never-ending line of one-night benefit concerts - this Monday night at the Zipper Theatre. Director Gordon Greenberg, whose production of JACQUES BREL... is about to end at the Zipper, claims that he'll have a Brechtian take on the musical.... Maybe Mother Courage will don a waitress uniform and sing "It's An Art."
The cast includes Jeb Brown, Mary Testa, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Ed Dixon amongst others.
Tickets ($55 and $30) are available through (212) 352-3101 or toll-free at (866) 811 4111. For more information visit actorsfund.org.
