This play ends with another of its characters taking up his grandfather's call "Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
This play ends with another of its characters taking up his grandfather's call "Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills." That character fights his family's opposition to his girlfriend Blanche and works as a clerk in a silk house. One character in this play smashes her father's beloved record of Caruso performing "O Paradiso." This play climaxes with Hennie leaving her husband Sam Feinschreiber and running off to Havana with Moe Axelrod. The central family in this play includes the matriarch Bessie, her Marxist father Jacob, and her idealistic son Ralph. Taking its title from the Book of Isaiah, it is set in a Bronx apartment during the Great Depression, and was first staged after the success of its author's play Waiting for Lefty. For 10 points, name this play with a musical title about the Berger family by Clifford Odets.
This play ends with another of its characters taking up his grandfather's call "Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
Awake and Sing!