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Category Archives: Musical

Temp Slaves, The Musical (2001)

07 May

Director: Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn

Contact: andrew rohn rohn@chorus.net http://www.laborfest.net or http://home.collegeclub.com/tempslave/tshome.html or Labor Video Project, 415-282-1908 lvpsf@labornet.org

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Musical, Working Class

 

Rosie the Riveter (1944)

26 Apr

75m; U.S.

Director: Joseph Santley

Synopsis: Musical designed to appeal to working women in 1940s

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Musical, Women, Working Class

 

Never Steal Anything Small (1959)

20 Apr

94m; U.S.

Director: Charles Lederer

Cast: James Cagney, Shirley Jones and Roger Smith

Synopsis (IMDB): Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot’s attractive wife, Linda, MacIllaney breaks up their marriage, pursues Linda, and pins a grand larceny rap on Dan. And all set to music!

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Comedy, Musical, Working Class

 

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Newsies (1992)

20 Apr

121m; U.S.

Director: Kenny Ortega

Cast: Christian Bale, Bill Pullman and Robert Duvall

Synopsis (IMDB): July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack “Cowboy” Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys’ strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Children, Class, Collective Bargaining, Drama, Labor History, Musical, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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The Pajama Game (1957)

20 Apr

101m; U.S.

Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen

Cast: Doris Day, John Raitt and Carol Haney

Synopsis (IMDB): Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won’t take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Comedy, Manufacturing, Musical, Romance, Women, Working Class

 

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