Working: A Musical is showing June 4-18, 2022! Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the workers that the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the COVID frontline workers, the waitress, the millworker, the mason, and the housewife, just to name a few. This show will feature the stories of, and surprise appearances by, members of the Burnsville community.
We reached out to actor Christy Montesdeoca to find out more about her and her experience working on this production!
What is your favorite part about working on this production?
Meeting all these wonderful new artists, who are so talented in many ways!
What do you think audiences will be thinking about on the way home from this show?
I think they will still be singing these songs all the way home.
Do you think this show is important? Why?
This show gives everyone something or someone to identify with by being portrayed up on stage in a beautiful expressive way.
If you were to spotlight anyone in your community, who would it be and why?
My husband, Salvador, who does maintenance and works as hard or harder than anyone I know.
What’s your favorite number in this show?
Cleanin’ Women
How did you get into theatre?
Community theater being an extra with my Mom when I was 12 yrs old.
What’s your favorite thing to do in Burnsville?
Hit up Homeplace!
What’s your favorite thing about working with Parkway Playhouse and why?
The actors have been amazing through this process.
Biography
Christy Montesdeoca is an actor around Asheville. She was most recently seen as Barbara in boom as well as Dinner with Friends, Blue Window and Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, at Attic Salt Theatre, and in Sweeney Todd and Avenue Q with ACT and Private Lives with Montford. Fluent in Spanish, she is also a Certified Healthcare Interpreter in WNC, often found working in clinics, doctor’s offices, schools and more. Her most important role is Mama to her kiddos! Happy to be in on stage for the first time with Parkway Playhouse she can also be seen in their next summer production as well.
Working: A Musical is showing June 4-18, 2022! Grab your tickets here: https://parkwayplayhouse.com/tickets/get-tickets/
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