{"id":134912,"date":"2026-03-10T23:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134912\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:14:13","slug":"9-to-5-works-at-charter-arts-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134912\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20189 to 5\u2019 works at Charter Arts \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published March 10. 2026 12:55PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201c9 to 5: The Musical\u201d punches the clock at 7 p.m. March 18, 19, 20, 21; 2 p.m. March 22, Theater, Lehigh Valley Charter HS for the Arts, 321 E. Third St., Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Director Kelly Minner-Bickert is assisted by Choreographer Jennifer Weaver, Music Director Erica Dickson, Orchestra Conductor Joseph Bucci, Technical Director Ellen Schmoyer, Scenic &amp; Lighting Designer Ellen Schmoyer, Costume Designer Amy Handkammer, Sound Designer Carlo Acerra and Stage Manager L Imhof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Three office coworkers, Violet Newstead, Doralee Rhodes and Judy Bernley, working under oppressive conditions at Consolidated Industries, decide to rebel against their domineering and lecherous boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The musical, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, is based on the 1980 film of the same title by Colin Higgins and Resnick. Orchestration is by Bruce Coughlin, with arrangements and additional orchestrations by Stephen Oremus and Alex Lacamoire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Produced by Robert Greenblatt, the musical opened on Broadway in 2009, receiving four Tony Award nominations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Notable songs include \u201c9 to 5,\u201d \u201cBackwoods Barbie,\u201d \u201cShine Like the Sun,\u201d \u201cGet Out and Stay Out\u201d and \u201cOne of the Boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">For tickets, visit charterarts.org.<\/p>\n<p>Press photo by Ed CourrierFrom left: Della Baird (Doralee Rhodes), Andi Schubert (Franklin Hart, Jr.), Raeya Bell (Violet Newstead) and Rosie Grellet (Judy Bernley), Charter Arts Theatre, Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, Bethlehem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published March 10. 2026 12:55PM \u201c9 to 5: The Musical\u201d punches the clock at 7 p.m. March 18,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-134912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}