The Cradle Will Rock

by Marc Blitzstein
Directed by Karen Coe Miller, School of Music

Performance Dates
Wed May 10 – Sat May 13 • 8 pm
Sun May 14 • 3 pm
Wed May 17 – Sat May 20 • 8 pm

Location
Roy Bowen Theatre

Tickets
$20 general public; $15 OSU faculty & staff, senior citizens, and Alumni Association members, $10 students and children
Call 292-2295 for information.

Written in 1936, Aaron Copland called The Cradle Will Rock a welter of contradictions: naughty, thoughtful, abrasive, passionate and funny; taking certain pleasure in needling the audience and telling unpleasant truths straight to their faces. OSU Theatre and the School of Music invite you to the Steeltown Jail on the eve of the Steelworkers Union rally. You’ll meet Moll, a streetwalker; The Liberty Committee, a group of distinguished citizens that have sold out their principles for cash and power; Harry, a once thriving drug store owner turned drunken vagrant; Mister Mister, Steeltown’s real boss who has everything his own way, apart from his vapid wife, sex-obsessed daughter, and doltish son; and Larry, the union organizer who refuses to be bought by Mister Mister.

Jointly produced by the OSU Department of Theatre and School of Music