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Amid COVID, spring show a new experience for Trumbull students
Donald Eng
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The Trumbull High Thespian Troupe rehearses its 2021 musical, “Working.”Contributed photo / Julie Spillane
TRUMBULL A year after getting shut down just days before opening night, director Jessica Spillane and the Trumbull High Thespians Troupe are back in the same situation, this time hoping for a different ending.
“We have had some stern conversations with the kids about protecting their health,” Spillane said. “We’re telling them, ‘We need you to be smart.’”
Trumbull High is set to debut its 2021 musical “Working” April 30 in a live performance in front of a limited audience. Spillane estimated no more than 300 people would be allowed inside the 1,100-seat school theater.
Wicked and
Godspell composer about an updated edition of the 1978 musical that features new interviews with frontline and essential workers. Peter Flynn and Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartzâ musical adaptation of Studs Terkelâs
Working, a collection of verbatim interviews with a wide range of workers talking about what they do and how they feel about it, has been shape-shifting since it premiered in 1977. Its structureâa modular series of monologues and songs written by a group of authors that includes Schwartz, Nina Faso, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, James Taylor, and Susan Birkenheadâhas allowed it to be seamlessly revised and updated many times through the years; A 2008 revision led by director Gordon Greenberg even added new songs by Tony- and Putlitzer-winning