The Latina seamstresses at a dressmaking workshop in East L.A. express their credo at the top of the new musical "Real Women Have Curves." With the pulsating song "Make It Work" these women sing about how - despite their burdens and obstacles - this community of hardworking immigrant women manage to create a vibrant life.

The title of the piece signals the show’s point of view, and that there will be support and community and body positivity aplenty. That’s exactly how it goes.

How’s this for timing? The final Broadway show opening in time to vie for Tony Award nominations has one of the best show-stopping numbers of the entire season. In the middle of the second act of Real Women Have Curves (James Earl Jones Theatre,