Joanna "JoJo" Levesque (Tess) and ensemble cast in "Working Girl" at La Jolla Playhouse (Photo by Rich Soublet II) The 1980s seem to be having a moment today. High-waisted jeans, oversized blazers and “Stranger Things”’ quantum leap from Netflix to Broadway are just some of the ways the pre-internet decade is infiltrating our digitally saturated consciousness. Enter the exuberant “Working Girl” — La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical based on the 1988 film by Kevin Wade

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