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Spring Show 25: Working
Spring Show 25: Working
The 2025 Spring Show: Working featured the music of several tony award winning composers and the first broadway prodcution NTA theatre has performed post COVID.
Production Highlights:
Largest number of songs performed in one production (over 20).
First broadway musical since returning from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Featured over a dozen new members or members trying out new roles.
Featured a student centric design for set, prop, lighting and sound.
Featured extensive use of gym space for audiance emersion and interaction.
In March NTA Theatre conducted a series of interviews with visitors who attended NTA's annual career day. Inspired by the work of Chicago broadcaster Studds Terkel NTA theatre students sat down with participants and asked them to describe what it was like to do their work in 2025.
Working
Studs Terkel, Chicago Public Schools graduate of McKinley High School and University of Chicago lawyer-turned-journalist famously hosted a 45-year WFMT radio broadcast and interviewed such personalities as Martin Luther King Jr. and Tennessee Williams.
Terkel's best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working, highlights the actual words of his interviewees; everyday Americans talking about the joys and struggles, passions and pains of their everyday lives at work.
In 1977, Working debuted as a Broadway stage adaptation. Since then, it has been revised, updated, and appended with songs and stories that are still relevant to us almost 50 years later. Featuring the words of real people set to music by Stephen Schwartz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Craig Carnelia, and James Taylor, Working puts the everyday person in the spotlight.
What are people's relationships with their work? Why do they keep at it? What are the fantasies and realities of the jobs we do? Working shows us that the human experience transcends our uniforms, schedules, and skillsets. What we hope for, dream about, take joy in, worry over, and commit to in our lives is the most compelling and moving core truth of all.
NTA Theatre hopes to uncover and honor not only the stories of people who have come before us, but also the unseen community among us as each of us contributes to the other through our daily work.
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