In Steeltown, USA, laborer Larry Foreman struggles to unionize fellow steel workers against mounting attacks from a greedy industrialist, who uses his power to influence nearly everyone else in town. Marc Blitzstein's folk opera, created through the Federal Theater Project, was famously shut down on the eve of opening night more...
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The Cradle Will Rock FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
I'm Checkin' Home Now Moll and Gent Moll and Dick So That's the Way Hurry Up and Telephone Moll and Druggist Oh, What a Filthy Night Court Mrs. Mister and Reverend Salvation Hard Times The Sermon War! War! Croon-Spoon The Freedom of the Press Let's Do Something Honolulu Drugstore Scene Summer Weather Gus and Sadie Love Song Hotel Lobby Scene Don't Let Me Keep You The Rich Ah, There You Are Ask Us Again Art for Art's Sake Nickel Under the Foot Polyphonic Leaflets The Cradle Will Rock Faculty Room Scene Lovely Morning Triple Flank Maneuvre Do I Have To Say? Listen, Fellas Doctor and Ella Joe Worker Stuck Like a Sandwich Ex-Foreman Final Reprises
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