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A Staged Concert Reading Book and lyrics by Harriet Reisen, music by Jeanie Stahl, performed by Anne Gottlieb and Jeanie Stahl. Directed by Doug Lockwood The story of a woman and her generation, the baby boomers, through the seventy years after World War II. Born in the early months of the population surge that followed World War II, the milestones of the woman’s life and her generation’s always wind up on the cover of Time magazine. Rosie wants to be a “somebody,” like her mother’s sister Rita, “not a nobody” like her housewife Mom. Aunt Rita is a glamorous executive at Doyle, Dane, Bernbach, the top “shop” during the Creative Revolution in advertising. The mystery of Rita’s early death becomes Rosie’s obsession. Only when she solves that mystery can Rosie finally come into her own.