RIVETS A Musical Celebrating Rosie the Riveter & the Homefront Soldieres 2009

Pictures (Dean Creighton,Lisa Danz, Mark D'Angelo, Brett D'Ambrosio, McCarty)accompanied by the song Blue Star, from RIVETS by Kathryn G. McCarty & Mitchell Covington, performed on the SS Red Oak Victory.
Homefront Soldiers, the family and loved ones 16 million American WW 2 Soldiers left behind while fighting overseas, are celebrated in RIVETS by Kathryn G. McCarty and Mitchell Covington, opening August 28 on the SS Red Oak Victory at the site of the historic Kaiser Richmond Shipyards in the Rosie the Riveter National Park.

The Kaiser Shipyards, the most famous and productive shipyards in the San Francisco Bay Area, serve as backdrop for RIVETS, which will run on the historic site Fridays-Sundays, August 28- Sept. 27. Last Fall, RIVETS played to full houses, and the show's success prompted another run, in which several new songs will be added.

The Red Oak Victory ship is the last surviving Victory ship built and launched in the Kaiser Richmond Shipyard. The shows characters are fictional, McCarty explains, but the story is based on a decade of historical research. Henry J. Kaiser's Shipyards produced the ships that helped America win WW 2, and changed our country forever. McCarty noted that the entire Bay Area played a critical role in America winning the war, "Richmond, Sausalito, Marin, Vallejo, San Francisco, Oakland - the characters and plotline of RIVETS are a tapestry of the entire Bay Area's dedication to the war effort."

With most of the Countrys men at war, women entered the work force for the first time in history. Women known as Rosie the Riveter, Wendy the Welder and Dynamite Dorothy were led by industrial geniuses like Henry J. Kaiser. The Bay Area had the largest concentration of shipbuilding, reaching from the Golden Gate nearly a hundred miles east to Stockton, with 14 shipyards contained within the area. The Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond employed over 40% of the areas 250,000 shipyard workers.
'09 show Directed by Clay David, Musical Direction Peter Maleitzke.

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[KGMCCARTY]

Would love for a theatre in Manchester to do RIVETS! :) That would be a great thing. 

[MrCraig1930]

I remember these Gals. I'll never forget the hard work they done during the World War II era. I lived near Boeing in Wichita, Kansas, they also worked at Cessna and Beechcraft in Wichita.

I would like to thank these Gals for the work they did during the hard times.

[RosiesDaughter]

Mum Sue (87yrs) worked at Avros, Failsworth, Manchester on the mighty Lancaster Bombers in WW11. We are also members of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, and get to see the mighty Lanc (wow those Merlin engines!), and the Spitfires, Hurricanes and Dakota that make up the Flight.

[RosiesDaughter]

Fantastic. My Mum Sue was a British Rosie, we are members of Friends of the 40s in England, wartime weekends, events, dances etc. They call Mum Rosie Riveter! We dress Rosie style at a lot of our events. Any possibility of bringing this musical over to England ?? PLEASE ??

Glenise. Manchester. England