Name: Working (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Original Broadway Cast Of Working
Brand: Original Broadway Cast of Working
SKU: 886443427907
Price: 9.9 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 3 (105 reviews)

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Despite an accomplished background as both a writer and an actor, Studs Terkel has never been known as a playwright. It has been left to other writers to put Terkel's works on the stage, and several have given it a shot, including Arthur Miller (The American Clock) and Jamie Pachino (Race). But none of them has had more success than Stephen Schwartz, whose musical adaptation of Terkel's Working has been produced around the world for more than 20 years now. In 1999, Schwartz set about the task of updating the musical to reflect the changes in the workplace since the show debuted in 1978. The cast recording of the revised production demonstrates the continued relevance and resonance of Terkel's work as well as the evocative range of the songs by Schwartz and his five well-known collaborators. The strength of the musical is the diversity of the songwriting, which is meant to reflect the diversity of the working men and women of America. Mary Rodgers and James Taylor are especially effective at capturing the voices of their characters without falling back too readily on musical theater clichés. There are one or two clunkers here that suffer in the translation from live performance to recorded soundtrack (Schwartz's "Neat to Be a Newsboy" tops that list), but on the whole the soundtrack captures the substance of both the musical and Terkel's book.
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2. Lovin' Al

by David Langston Smyrl

Performer: Working Orchestra
David Langston Smyrl; Performer
Primary Artist: David Langston Smyrl; Main Performer
Vocals: David Langston Smyrl; Performer
Composer: Micki Grant; Composer
Lyricist: Micki Grant; Composer
Conductor: Stephen Reinhardt; Conductor
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Elliot Scheiner; Production

8. Millwork

by Robin Lamont

Performer: Working Orchestra
Robin Lamont; Performer
Primary Artist: Robin Lamont; Main Performer
Vocals: Robin Lamont; Performer
Composer: James Taylor; Composer
Lyricist: James Taylor; Composer
Conductor: Stephen Reinhardt; Conductor
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Elliot Scheiner; Production

12. Brother Trucker

by Joe Mantegna

Performer: Working Orchestra
Joe Mantegna; Performer
Primary Artist: Joe Mantegna; Main Performer
Vocals: Joe Mantegna; Performer
Composer: James Taylor; Composer
Lyricist: James Taylor; Composer
Conductor: Stephen Reinhardt; Conductor
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Elliot Scheiner; Production

13. Fathers and Sons

by Bob Gunton

Primary Artist: Bob Gunton; Main Performer
Performer: Bob Gunton; Performer
Composer: Stephen Schwartz; Composer
Lyricist: Stephen Schwartz; Composer
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Elliot Scheiner; Production

1. All the Livelong Day "I Hear America Singing"

by Working Ensemble

Performer: Working Orchestra
Company; Performer
Primary Artist: Working Ensemble; Main Performer
Vocals: Working Ensemble; Performer
Composer: Walt Whitman
Stephen Schwartz; Composer
Lyricist: Walt Whitman
Stephen Schwartz; Composer
Vocal Arrangement: Stephen Reinhardt; Composer
Conductor: Stephen Reinhardt; Conductor
Director: Stephen Reinhardt; Production
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Elliot Scheiner; Production

3. The Mason

by David Patrick Kelly

Performer: Working Orchestra
David Patrick Kelly; Performer
Primary Artist: David Patrick Kelly; Main Performer
Vocals: David Patrick Kelly; Performer
Composer: Craig Carnelia; Composer
Lyricist: Craig Carnelia; Composer
Conductor: Stephen Reinhardt; Conductor
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Elliot Scheiner; Production

4. Neat to Be a Newsboy

by Matthew Mcgrath

Performer: Working Orchestra
Matthew Mcgrath; Performer
Primary Artist: Matthew Mcgrath; Main Performer
Vocals: Matthew Mcgrath; Performer
Composer: Stephen Schwartz; Composer
Lyricist: Stephen Schwartz; Composer
Conductor: Stephen Reinhardt; Conductor
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Elliot Scheiner; Production

5. Nobody Tells Me How

by Bobo Lewis

Performer: Working Orchestra
Bobo Lewis; Performer
Primary Artist: Bobo Lewis; Main Performer
Vocals: Bobo Lewis; Performer
Composer: Mary Rodgers
Susan Birkenhead; Composer
Lyricist: Susan Birkenhead
Mary Rodgers; Composer
Conductor: Stephen Reinhardt; Conductor
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Elliot Scheiner; Production

6. Un Mejor Dia Vendra

by Matt Landers, Joe Mantegna, Working Ensemble

Primary Artist: Joe Mantegna
Matt Landers
Working Ensemble; Main Performer
Performer: Working Orchestra
Matt Landers; Performer
Vocals: Joe Mantegna
Matt Landers
Working Ensemble; Performer
Composer: Matt Landers
James Taylor
Spanish Lyrics By Graciela Daniele; Composer
Lyricist: Matt Landers
Spanish Lyrics By Graciela Daniele; Composer
Conductor: Stephen Reinhardt; Conductor
Producer: Elliot Scheiner
Stephen Schwartz; Production
Translation: Graciela Daniele; Production