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To commemorate its 40th anniversary, Feinstein’s/54 Below is bringing back, for one night only, the acclaimed Tony nominated musical Working, featuring new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as favorites by Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, Michele Brourman, and James Taylor.

Based on Studs Terkel‘s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the men and women that the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the waitress, the millworker, the mason, and the housewife, just to name a few.

The eclectic score features such songs as “It’s an Art,” “Lovin’ Al,” “Just A Housewife,” and “If I Could’ve Been.”

Featuring:

Loni Ackerman (Evita, Cats)
Major Attaway (Aladdin)
Marie-France Arcilla (Working, Jesus Christ Superstar)
LaDonna Burns (Follies, Godspell)
Jay Armstrong Johnson (Phantom of the Opera, On The Town)
Mary Callanan (The Bridges of Madison County, Bandstand)
Carolee Carmello (Parade, The Addams Family)
Felipe Joglar Perez (Merrily We Roll Along, Beauty and the Beast)
Ann Harada (Avenue Q, Cinderella)
Marc Kudisch (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Assassins)
Javier Muñoz (Hamilton, In The Heights)
Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Working, Pippin)
Gerry Vichi (Something Rotten, Curtains)

Also Featuring:

Justin Baret (In the Heights, Little Shop or Horrors)
Jimmy Brewer (The Black Suits, The Flamingo Kid)
Asher Dubin (The Body Politic, Footloose)
Lauren Echausse (Be More Chill, Urinetown)
Scott Fuss (Sister Act, Bridges of Madison County)
Morgan Hecker (Dr. Suess’…Grinch, Love in Hate Nation)
Trey McCoy (Motown)
Jenna Najjar (Mary Poppins, The Three Musketeers)
Kiani Nelson (Den of Thieves, Songs for a New World)
Paris Alexander Nesbitt (The Book of Mormon)
Jeffrey Nunez (In the Heights)
Samantha Sayah (Junie B. Jones, Frozen)
Christian Strange (The Drowsy Chaperone, Hamlet)
Becca Suskauer (Mamma Mia)
Cecelia Ticktin (54 Sings The Happy Time, Kiss Me Kate)

Music Director: Kevin David Thomas
Produced and Directed by Robert W. Schneider

Entertaining, funny and touching, it is worth catching, not the least because Working has been smartly updated, with wonderful new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and new characters, based on new interviews, that reflect how dramatically the world of work has changed just in the past three decades.

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