Working
- Episode aired Apr 13, 1982
- 1h 30m
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7.3/10
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A musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book celebrating the lives of everyday working-class people.A musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book celebrating the lives of everyday working-class people.A musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book celebrating the lives of everyday working-class people.
Vernee Watson
- Secretary
- (as Vernée Watson)
Billy Jayne
- Newsboy
- (as Billy Jacoby)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn a seminar with the Dramatist's Guild of North America in December 2003, Stephen Schwartz said that directing this television production was the lowest point in his career. He believed at the time he would never write another musical and that he was in a position where he did not know what he was doing.
- Quotes
Nora Watson: Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Our real imaginations have not yet been challenged.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Facts of Life: Read No Evil (1982)
- SoundtracksAll the Live Long Day
Music by Stephen Schwartz
Lyrics by Walt Whitman and Stephen Schwartz
Sung by Barry Bostwick and Chorus
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Wish they had done a better job...
This was produced by PBS/WGBH/Great Performances/American Playhouse. But I wish they had cast some of the roles better. People like Barry Bostwick, Charles Haid, Rita Moreno & Barbara Hershey were very good, but I had to wince at Beth Howland's (from the "Alice" CBS sitcom) attempt at "Just a Housewife." Ugh. Didi Conn was annoying as the secretary, and Barbara Barrie was boring as The Schoolteacher, a song she did not sing well. Studs Terkel introduces the show, and in back of him are matted on the wall HUGE portraits of the actors in the show. Ick. Ploddingly directed - too bad for a wonderful musical that is not performed enough...
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- Lori S
- Nov 13, 1999
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