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Dominican University Performing Arts Center will present Working, a musical based on the best-selling book of interviews by Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel, from Friday, February 22 through Sunday, February 24 in Eloise Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Working captures the diversity and dignity of America’s breadwinners in their own feisty, heartbreaking and joyful words. Adapted by Stephen Schwartz (who composed Wicked and wrote the lyrics for the Disney hit movie Enchanted) and Nina Faso, Working was nominated for multiple Tony, Emmy and Drama Desk awards. Its eclectic collection of songs, influenced by pop, rock, folk, country and blues music, are by Schwartz, James Taylor, Micki Grant, Craig Carnelia, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead.

By exploring the American workday from the hearts and minds of truckers, teachers, masons, migrant workers and more, Working gives voice to the ordinary men and women who are missing from most musicals. It is their moment to illuminate not only their daily tasks, but their hopes, dreams, grievances and aspirations as well.

Friday and Saturday night performances begin at 7:30 p.m.; the Sunday performance is at 3:00 p.m. For more information or to order tickets, contact the Dominican University box office at (708) 488-5000 or purchase tickets online at www.dom.edu/pac. General admission tickets are $15.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive year.