A high-energy celebration of women featuring Top-40 songs like…
RESPECT, Stand by Your Man, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, These Boots are Made for Walkin’, I Will Survive, Greatest Love of All.

What songs make up the soundtrack of your life?  Do the hit songs of the last century reflect the moods of the times and attitude towards women? That was the question writer Dorothy Marcic sought to answer in her book Respect, the basis for the new Off-Broadway show This One’s For The Girls. Marcic examined the Top 40 songs sung by women, determining that the music showed the change of women’s attitudes from co-dependency to independent. The show features an ensemble of four women performers. Jana Robbins plays Janet, a writer-researcher who narrates the history of women from the time of the suffragettes to present-day as she tells the story of the women in her life. Among them are women who have been abused by husbands, women who were independent, and others who were housewives. Many of the songs are presented as snippets or as musical mash-ups.  A few songs become stories, giving each of the other three female performers opportunities to showcase their skills. Haley Swindal is adorable singing Vikki Carr’s hit “It Must Be Him.” She plays a young woman agonizing over the phone call that doesn’t come. She also is a Betty Boop character when she sings, “I Want To Be Loved By You.” T …Read more