Springfield Little Theatre’s first production of 2017 is “9 to 5: The Musical” at the Landers Theatre, 311 E. Walnut, running January 20 to February 5. LT’s longtime Scenic Designer/Tech Director Chuck Rogers is directing the show, featuring a book by Patricia Resnick, and music and lyrics by none other than Dolly Parton herself, who was one of the three stars of the popular 20 th -Century Fox movie comedy on which this stage show is based. I offered the opinion that the movie’s major point was to strike a blow for women in the workplace and overcoming the corporate “glass ceiling”, and Chuck Rogers expanded on that idea. “It was a tremendous blow for women in the workplace, and I think that it really started to change a lot of minds”—even given the wild, farcical plot. “When you look at those iconic characters—all three of the women that starred in that film, Lily Tomlin (as Violet Newstead), Jane Fonda (as Judy Bernly) and Dolly Parton (as Doralee Rhodes), the success that they’ve
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