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Writers Block 2016 Presents Mimi Stern-Wolfe and Downtown Music Productions Pins and Needles By Harold Rome

Writers Block 2016 Presents Mimi Stern-Wolfe and Downtown Music Productions Pins and Needles By Harold Rome

October 25, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Venue
Howl! Happening
6 East 1st Street
New York City, NY 10003 + Google Map

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 / 7 PM

Part of the 2016 Writers Block staged reading and performance festival

A lighthearted look at young workers in a changing society in the middle of America’s most politically engaged city. —PBS.org

First produced on Broadway from 1937 to 1940, the title Pins and Needles was created by Max Danish, long-time editor of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union newspaper Justice. The play looked at current events from a pro-union standpoint and skits spoofed everything from Fascist dictators to bigots and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Sponsored by the Union, the original cast was made up of cutters, basters, and sewing machine operators.

Word-of-mouth was so positive that the cast abandoned their day jobs and the production opened on Broadway, with a full performance schedule of eight shows per week. New songs and skits were introduced every few months to keep the show topical. According to American author, teacher and theatre historian John Kenrick, Pins and Needles “is the only hit ever produced by a labor union, and the only time when a group of unknown non-professionals brought a successful musical to Broadway.” About Downtown Music Productions and Mimi Stern Wolfe

TICKETS: $20 Suggested Donation
Limited Space. To reserve a seat buy your tickets now

The staged readings series is a benefit for the Actors Fund’s Howl! HELP, providing emergency financial assistance and social service support to artists who have made or continue to make their careers in New York’s East Village and Lower East Side arts communitiesHowl! HELP is administered by the Actors Fund and 100% ticket sales benefit the Actors Fund.

Phone
917.475.1294
Website
howlarts.org
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