In 1937 Pins & Needles was a hit musical written for and performed by the members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. This amateur company ran on Broadway for four years and sent three different touring companies across the US.  With members of FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality), we adapted this historic musical to be performed by them.  FUREE in Pins and Needles is a community musical performed by a community that knows too well what they were singing about in 1937 and what they are singing about in 2011.

FUREE in Pins & Needles was the finale production of NYC… Just Like I Pictured It, The Foundry’s year-long, citywide community theatre festival in which 5 new theatre premieres re-imagined what our city might look like in the imaginations of artists and social justice communities — people whose passionate work is born of empathy and creative thinking, and the desire to inspire this in a larger public.