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Studs Terkel's Working (Broadway Theatre Archive) - Region 1 DVD

Description: D D T T Steelworkers, waitresses, and parking garage attendants hardly make the stuff of the traditional Broadway musical. But their voices form the songs and monologues of this plotless paean to the American working stiff, inspired by the bestselling oral history by Studs Terkel. Adapted from the stage production by composer Stephen Schwartz, this 1982 American Playhouse production has a pleasingly fluid structure that includes Terkel himself as an onscreen narrator/host. It veers from sentimentalizing working folk to (at its best) questioning the conclusion drawn by a high-priced call girl played by Barbara Hershey ... (more)
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Release date: 5 January 2002
EAN: 0014381088229 UPC: 014381088229
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