Here’s a little something for Labor Day. The stage musical Working is based on the work of Studs Terkel and premiered on Broadway in 1978 with music by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso. Over the years it has grown and evolved and includes new material created by new composers such as James Taylor and Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose work was first featured in 2009. Much of the new work was unavailable as a recording until last March. Here’s one of Miranda’s contributions that was released as part of that offering: “Delivery”.
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TIP BIG, Americans, you are eating in restaurants, they are working in restaurants, do you get the difference? until we get that changed, with the help of this musical maybe, but, frankly, not the best song ever, sorry, heard much better….. In France the bill is divided in increments of percentages, servers, cooks, washers, owners, managers, everybody gets their cut of the bill…and you can walk away without being the judge of the “tip”…. it is very nice…and the stingy people who look for any excuse to tip low, are part of the worthless ones, “end of race feudal lords”, as we would say in France…