Testa Joins Chase, Keenan-Bolger & More in Working Benefit Concert

Mary Testa has been added to the one-night only, newly adapted concert version of Working, a benefit for the Actors' Fund of America, which will take place on February 19 at The Zipper Theatre under the direction of Gordon Greenberg. Testa joins a line-up that also includes Will Chase High Fidelity, Merle Dandridge Tarzan, Ed Dixon the original production of Les Misérables, Roderick Hill Butley and Celia Keenan-Bolger Les Misérables, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Working is the 1978 musical adapted by Stephen Schwartz from the acclaimed non-fiction book by Studs Terkel. This new concert version is adapted from the original by Greenberg Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Working contains original songs by Schwartz "All the Livelong Day," "It's an Art," "Fathers and Sons", Craig Carnelia "Just a Housewife," "The Mason," "Joe," "Something to Point To", Micki Grant "If I Could've Been," "Lovin' Al," "Cleaning Women", Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead "Nobody Tells Me How" and James Taylor "Brother Trucker," "Millwork," "Traffic Jam". Steve Marzullo is the music director.

Working presents men and women from every walk of life talking about their jobs—their likes and dislikes, fears, problems and happiness. "I've always been a great fan of this show and wondered how we might expose the workings of the show itself by featuring things like stage manager calls and the backstage crew doing their jobs—and by watching fewer actors play more characters, in a Brechtian sense," Greenberg explained in a statement.