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ATLANTA, IN OUR OWN WORDS Essential workers of our city tell their own stories in Working STORY BY
Sally Henry Fuller In this version of Working: A Musical by Stephen Schwartz, the Broadway writer has collaborated with director/co-adapter Tamilla Woodard to tailor this production specifically to Atlanta. In the hands of Woodard, this specificity was inevitable. “When we first started talking about Working,” shares the coadapter/director “one of the things that I thought would be really magnificent was to go ahead and really transform the piece to be sitespecific, which is the kind of work
that I normally do. I create work that literally is specific to a site, specific to a community, built out of the community and in conversations with the community.” The legacy of Working has the fingerprints of multiple writers, including Schwartz, Mary Rogers, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who have contributed to revisions over the years. So continuing the tradition of revising it for each new edition, Woodard has added her fingerprints to the legacy.
