Play with music

Based on Eve Merriam's Growing Up Female in America. Arranged for the stage by Paula Wagner, Jack Hofsiss and Eve Merriam. Music by Ruth Crawford Seeger, adapted by Daniel Schrier. With additional music by Daniel Schrier and Marjorie Lipari. 3 f. to play 6 roles, musicians. Int. This moving play is drawn from the diaries, journals and letters of women: a schoolgirl-- founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement, an astronomer, a labor organizer, a minister, a doctor and a woman from the Jewish ghetto. They are seen as they grow up, marry, bear children and face being ostracized for wanting careers.

FEE: $35 per performance. Additional music available in American Folk Songs for Children, $12.95