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ROSIE (the Riveter) by Adriana Amendola-Rogers
Mamapalooza & The n Westchester Office For Women in Partnership with a M&M Productions Acting Company:
Rosie (the Riveter) by Adriana Rogers
Saturday, Sept. 20 at 11:00 AM Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520

APPROPRIATE FOR FAMILY AUDIENCES – AGE 8-9 IS THE TARGET AGE GROUP
 
A bustling Rosie, eight months pregnant and wearing a 1950's apron, bids her two-year-old sweet dreams, then greets her audience and quickly sets them straight about not being limited to “women’s work.”   After shedding her pregnancy, Rosie enters into a flashback, where she is 18 again, growing up on a farm with her dad in rural Kansas and doing all the chores a man would do. When the Great Depression hits and her father loses the farm, Rosie then tearfully kisses her father goodbye and boards a train headed to the city of Billings, Montana, where she lives with some relatives during such a hard period. In Billings, Rosie is turned down for factory work because she is a woman and eventually takes a job as a waitress where she meets her future husband, Sam. When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Sam enlists and Rosie is suddenly in demand for factory work. She slips into her jumpsuit, dons her signature kerchief and reveals the iconic image of Rosie, The Riveter. Some audience members help Rosie along her journey, and they learn how it feels when men and women receive different pay for the same work. She demonstrates the dangers of wartime factory work, particularly for women of color. When the war is finally won, Rosie finds she is no longer needed at the factory. She is told by her demeaning boss to "hit the bricks, sister. The men are coming home and they want their jobs back!"   As dejected as she feels in that moment, we later see just how empowered she has become by her work experience. Rosie embraces domestic life while celebrating her own accomplishments and the accomplishments of all women in the workplace.

MADAM
a musical based on the life of Madam C.J. Walker
Book and Lyrics by Adriana Amendola-Rogers
Music by Paul L. Johnson

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