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From the book by Studs Terkel Adapted by Stephen Schwartz
...invitations, suitably enough, arrived in a brown paper bag. They were for the Chicago opening of a musical based on Working, Author Studs Terkel's 1974 bestseller. Directed by Composer Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, God spell), the play is a working man's Chorus Line telling, in separate episodes, the stories of such characters as a steelworker, a supermarket checker, a teacher, a switchboard operator and a parking-lot attendant. The cast exuberantly hauls around ladders, scaffolds and dollies to tunes written for the show by James Taylor and others. The message? Says Terkel, whose book was based...
Indefatigable Romantic. Terkel's prime failing is his unwillingness to contradict-or entertain a critical thought -about anyone who was nice enough to spend time with him. He listens rhapsodically as British Director Joan Littlewood says, "I'm sick to death of all these silly old political and social and educational systems which have got in the way of human expression." Not a word from Terkel, wondering whether those systems are not perhaps products of human expression. On the evidence of Talking to Myself, Terkel has rarely sought out people who actually run things. An indefatigable romantic...
...Terkel goes a long way to ward correcting the sociological imbalance between charts and characters...
...degree he earned from the Uni versity of Chicago never displaced his curiosity about people - or made him a dollar. In retrospect, Terkel's decision not to practice law looks inspired...