WORKING
Composer: Various
Lyricist: Various
Opened: May 14, 1978, 46th Street Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 25
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast album
lp are noted below.
American Dreaming (M/L: James Taylor) (cut):
1. Demo (James Taylor)
Delivery (M/L: Lin-Manuel Miranda)
(added to the 2017 London production):
1. Working, CD/Ghostlight 24516-02
(Liam Tamne & Company with musical direction by Isaac
McCullough)
Hey Somebody (Reprise #1):
1. Working, CD/LA Theatre
Works 8749 (Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, Harry Groener, Kaitlin
Hopkins, Michael Kostroff, Kenna Ramsey, Vickilyn Reynolds, B.J.
Ward, and Chorus with musical direction by Lawrence O'Keefe)
Hots Michael At The Piano (aka "Nobody
Goes Out Anymore") (M/L: Craig Carnelia) (cut):
1. Lost In Boston IV,
CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5768 (Rupert Holmes with music conducted
by Brad Ellis)
2. Working, CD/Fynsworth Alley 302 062 1142 (Craig Carnelia,
piano and voice) (bonus track)
I'm Just Movin' (aka "Checkers") (M/L:
Stephen Schwartz) (added to the show in 1999):
1. Working, CD/LA Theatre
Works 8749 (Kenna Ramsey with musical direction by Lawrence
O'Keefe) [also found on Working, CD/Fynsworth Alley 302 062 1142
(bonus track)]
Traffic Jam (added in some subsequent
productions):
1. JT, Columbia (S)
JC-34811 (James Taylor) [reissued as CD/Columbia 69801]
A Very Good Day (M/L: Lin-Manuel
Miranda) (added to the 2017 London production):
1. Working, CD/Ghostlight 24516-02
(Liam Tamne & Siubhan Harrison with musical direction
by Isaac McCullough)
Unrecorded Material:
Husbands And Wives (dance)
(M/L: Michele Brourman)
Nightskate (M: Michele Brourman; Stephen Schwartz; L: Stephen
Schwartz)
Treasure Island Trio (dance) (M: Michele Brourman)
The Working Girl's Apache (dance) (M: Michele Brourman) (cut)