I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road is a musical with music by Nancy Ford and book and lyrics by Gretchen Cryer.
Original text
I’m Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road was a controversial sensation at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and Circle in the Square in the late ’70s. It is the story of a thirty-nine-year-old songwriter who is making a comeback, throwing out “the crap of the past” – her commercial sex kitten image – in order to forge a new identity, writing songs that express how she really feels and who she really is. Her manager (a former lover) is appalled. He likes her the way she used to be and says he can’t sell this “new woman.” They battle it out to a bittersweet, triumphant conclusion.
The musical was produced by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival at The Public Theater, opening on June 14, 1978 and closing on March 15, 1981 at the Circle-in-the-Square (Downtown)
Performance history in South Africa
1981: Presented by C.A.T. Productions at the Baxter Theatre, directed by Dawn Lindberg, with Dawn Lindberg, Peter J. Elliot, Anne Power, Ann Campbell and Dale Stephens.
Sources
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987).
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