The Cradle Will Rock

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musical stage work

The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 pro-labor musical by Marc Blitzstein, famous for its controversial, government-censored premiere and its association with Orson Welles and the American leftist theater movement.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	musical → stage work →
associatedWith	John Houseman → Orson Welles → Works Progress Administration →
bookWriter	Marc Blitzstein →
composer	Marc Blitzstein →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
creator	Marc Blitzstein →
depicts	American labor movement → industrial town of Steeltown →
directorOfNotableProduction	Orson Welles →
firstPerformanceCity	New York City →
firstPerformanceCountry	United States →
firstPerformanceDate	1937-06-16 →
form	sung-through musical →
genre	political musical → pro-labor musical → satire →
hasCharacter	Dr. Specialist → Editor Daily → Harry Druggist → Junior Mister → Larry Foreman → Moll → Mr. Mister → Mrs. Mister → Reverend Salvation → Sister Mister →
hasNotableSong	Art for Art’s Sake → Croon-Spoon → Joe Worker → Nickel Under the Foot → The Cradle Will Rock (title song) →
influenced	American political musical theatre →
lyricist	Marc Blitzstein →
mainTheme	class struggle → corporate corruption → fascism → labor rights → unionization →
movement	American leftist theater movement → Federal Theatre Project →
notableEvent	Federal Theatre Project shutdown order → government censorship controversy → legendary 1937 impromptu premiere →
orchestration	originally scored for piano accompaniment →
originalLanguage	English →
originalProducer	Federal Theatre Project →
politicalAlignment	left-wing →
producerOfNotableProduction	John Houseman →
settingPlace	fictional industrial American city →
settingTime	Great Depression era →
subjectOf	1999 film Cradle Will Rock → numerous revivals and recordings →
yearOfWork	1937 →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Angus Macfadyen ("Cradle Will Rock") → Federal Theatre Project → Howard Da Silva → Mercury Theatre ("The Cradle Will Rock (associated production)") →	notableWork
Tim Robbins ("Cradle Will Rock") →	directed
The Cradle Will Rock ("The Cradle Will Rock (title song)") →	hasNotableSong
Angus Macfadyen ("Cradle Will Rock") →	portrayedIn