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Working

Title: Working [videorecording] / Produced by Phylis Geller and Lindsay Law ; associate producer, Yvonne Smith ; executive producer, Jac Venza ; from the book by Studs Terkel ; adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso ; songs by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor ; directed by Stephen Schwartz and Kirk Browning ; produced for PBS-TV.
Publication: New York : Broadway Theatre Archive, c2000.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (87 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's 1974 nonfiction book Working, originally performed as a stage play in 1978.

Series Statement

American Playhouse
Broadway Theatre Archive

Alternative Title

Studs Terkel's Working

Subjects

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008 > Adaptations
Television adaptations
Men > Employment > United States > Drama
Blue collar workers > United States > Drama
Television
Women > Employment > United States > Drama
Working class > United States > Drama
Working class > United States > Social conditions > 20th century > Drama
Temporary employees > Drama
White collar workers > United States > Drama

Genre/Form

Television.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Film editing by Roy Stewart ; art director, Charles Lisanby ; costume designer, Richard Bostard ; lighting designer, George Riesenberger ; music supervision, John Adams ; orchestrations by Tom Pierson ; musical director, Stephen Michael Reinhardt ; musical numbers staged by Sammy Bayes.

Performer (note)

Host: Studs Terkel.
Barry Bostwick, Scatman Crothers, Barbara Browning, Vernee Watson, Jay Garner, Billy Jayne, Barbara Barrie, Carole Schwartz, Bill Beyers, Fausto Barajas, Charles Haid, Beth Howland, Barbara Hershey, Eileen Brennan, Rita Moreno, James Taylor, Lynne Thigpen, Edie McClurg, Didi Conn, Charles Durning, Matt Landers, Patti LaBelle, Mark Neely, David Patrick Kelly, Gilmer McCormick.
Voices: Daniel Valdez, Jennifer Warnes.

Event (note)

First broadcast on WNET, Channel 13, New York, N.Y., April 13, 1982.

Call Number

NCOX 368

OCLC

918899774

Title

Working [videorecording] / Produced by Phylis Geller and Lindsay Law ; associate producer, Yvonne Smith ; executive producer, Jac Venza ; from the book by Studs Terkel ; adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso ; songs by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor ; directed by Stephen Schwartz and Kirk Browning ; produced for PBS-TV.

Imprint

New York : Broadway Theatre Archive, c2000.

Series

American Playhouse

Broadway Theatre Archive

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Film editing by Roy Stewart ; art director, Charles Lisanby ; costume designer, Richard Bostard ; lighting designer, George Riesenberger ; music supervision, John Adams ; orchestrations by Tom Pierson ; musical director, Stephen Michael Reinhardt ; musical numbers staged by Sammy Bayes.

Cast

Host: Studs Terkel.

Barry Bostwick, Scatman Crothers, Barbara Browning, Vernee Watson, Jay Garner, Billy Jayne, Barbara Barrie, Carole Schwartz, Bill Beyers, Fausto Barajas, Charles Haid, Beth Howland, Barbara Hershey, Eileen Brennan, Rita Moreno, James Taylor, Lynne Thigpen, Edie McClurg, Didi Conn, Charles Durning, Matt Landers, Patti LaBelle, Mark Neely, David Patrick Kelly, Gilmer McCormick.

Voices: Daniel Valdez, Jennifer Warnes.

Event

First broadcast on WNET, Channel 13, New York, N.Y., April 13, 1982.

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Added Author

Geller, Phylis, producer.

Law, Lindsay, producer.

Smith, Yvonne (Producer)

Venza, Jac, television producer.

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, host.

Schwartz, Stephen, adapter.

Schwartz, Stephen, director.

Schwartz, Stephen, composer.

Schwartz, Stephen, lyricist.

Faso, Nina, adapter.

Carnelia, Craig, composer.

Carnelia, Craig, lyricist.

Grant, Micki, composer.

Grant, Micki, lyricist.

Rodgers, Mary, 1931-2014, composer.

Birkenhead, Susan, lyricist.

Taylor, James, 1948- composer.

Taylor, James, 1948- lyricist.

Taylor, James, 1948- performer.

Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008, television director.

Stewart, Roy, editor of moving image work.

Lisanby, Charles, set designer.

Bostard, Richard, costume designer.

Riesenberger, George, lighting designer.

Adams, John, 1947- music supervisor.

Pierson, Tom, orchestrations.

Reinhardt, Stephen (Conductor)

Bayes, Sammy, choreographer.

Bostwick, Barry, performer.

Crothers, Scat Man, performer.

Browning, Barbara, performer.

Watson, Vernee, performer.

Garner, Jay, performer.

Jacoby, Billy, 1969- performer.

Barrie, Barbara, performer.

Schwartz, Carole, performer.

Beyers, Bill, performer.

Barajas, Fausto, performer.

Haid, Charles, 1943- performer.

Howland, Beth, 1941-2015, performer.

Hershey, Barbara, 1948- performer.

Brennan, Eileen, performer.

Moreno, Rita, performer.

Thigpen, Lynne, performer.

McClurg, Edie, performer.

Conn, Didi, 1951- performer.

Durning, Charles, 1923-2012, performer.

Landers, Matt, performer.

LaBelle, Patti, performer.

Neely, Mark, performer.

Kelly, David Patrick, performer.

McCormick, Gilmer, 1947- performer.

Valdez, Daniel, 1949- singer.

Warnes, Jennifer, singer.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Note

Title on cassette: Studs Terkel's Working

Research Call Number

NCOX 368

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