Salmon Arm Secondary students will be back on the boards next week with Working, a musical that explores, “the extraordinary dreams of ordinary people.”
Written by Stephen Schwartz, Working is based on the book by Chicago broadcaster and writer Studs Terkel’s interviews with American workers.
In the musical, which opened on Broadway in May 1978, 26 workers, including a parking lot attendant, corporate executive, schoolteacher, gas man, housewife, fireman, waitress, millworker, sailor, etc., sing and talk about their jobs, describing not only their daily lives, but their hopes and aspirations as well.
From the Monday-morning blues to pride in a job well done, the production was adapted into a stage play by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso.
Schwartz, a Broadway, film and opera composer and lyricist and director, stage manager, actor, writer, producer Nina Faso used most of the original words in adapting Working to the stage.
Working is a down-to-earth yet elevating production, with music by Stephen Schwartz, James Taylor, Micki Grant, Craig Carnelia, Mary Rodgers, and Lin Manuel Miranda.
Working runs Tuesday, Dec. 3 through Saturday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Salmon Arm Secondary Sullivan Campus Theatre.
A matinee performance takes place Saturday, Dec. 7 at 1 p.m.
Tickets are $10 each and are available at Acorn Music.
