| Pins and Needles | |
|---|---|
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| Music | Harold Rome |
| Lyrics | Harold Rome |
| Book | Arthur Arent Marc Blitzstein Emmanuel Eisenberg Charles Friedman David Gregory Joseph Schrank Arnold B. Horwitt John Latouche Harold Rome |
| Productions | 1937 Broadway |
Pins and Needles (1937) is a musical revue with a book by Arthur Arent, Marc Blitzstein, Emmanuel Eisenberg, Charles Friedman, David Gregory, Joseph Schrank, Arnold B. Horwitt, John Latouche, and Harold Rome, and music and lyrics by Rome. The title Pins and Needles was created by Max Danish, long-time editor of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)'s newspaper Justice.
It ran on Broadway from 1937 to 1940, and was revived in 1978. It was produced again in London in 2010 to positive reviews. In 2016, the show ran at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City, where it was produced by the Steinhardt School at New York University.[1] The revue was also performed in 1938 in the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor.[2][3]
- ^ Pins and Needles local802afm.org
- ^ Daniel Katz. All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multi-Culturalism. New York: NYU Press, 2011.
- ^ Susan Ware. "Skin Deep", a review of the book An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality by Jill Fields, University of California Press, 2007. This review appeared in the Washington Post, Sunday, July 15, 2007.