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

True to both S.E. Hinton’s seminal 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s subsequent film, La Jolla Playhouse's world premiere of “The...