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The Pajama Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7. ВЅ Cents by Richard Bissell.
The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where workers demands for a seven- and- a- half cent raise are going unheeded. In the midst of this ordeal, love blossoms between Babe, the grievance committee head, and Sid, the new factory superintendent. The original Broadway production opened on May 1. St. James Theatre, and ran for 1,0.
Shubert Theatre at the end of the run. It was revived in 1. The Roundabout Theatre Company. The original production won a Tony Award for Best Musical, and the 2. Broadway revival won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. The musical is a popular choice for community and school group productions. The original West End production opened at the London Coliseum on October 1.
Characters[edit]Sid Sorokin, the handsome new factory superintendent who falls in love with Babe, despite their being on opposite sides of the labor dispute central to the plot. Katherine "Babe" Williams, the leader of the Union Grievance Committee, who in turn falls in love with Sid. Myron "Old Man" Hasler, the strict head of the pajama factory who keeps a secret. Gladys Hotchkiss, Hasler's attractive, quick- witted secretary, who dates Hines and is chased by Prez. Vernon Hines, the factory timekeeper, who thinks Gladys flirts too much and, as a result is always jealous. Prez, the head of the union and a skirt chaser, despite being a married man. Mabel, the mother hen of the factory and Sid's secretary.
Mae, a loud- mouthed member of the Grievance Committee, who accepts Prez's advances, much to his surprise. Pop, Babe's kind and agreeable father. Max, A salesman. Charley, a worker in the factory and the handyman. Joe, a factory worker and Prez's right- hand man. Brenda, A member of the Grievance Committee. Virginia, a factory girl and union activist.
Poopsie, a factory girl and union activist. Gus, an unhappy factory helper who Sid shoves. Act IA strike is imminent at the Sleep- Tite Pajama Factory, where the workers churn out pajamas at a backbreaking pace ("Racing with the Clock"). In the middle of this, a new superintendent, Sid Sorokin, has come from out of town to work in the factory ("A New Town Is a Blue Town"). The union, led by Prez, is seeking a wage raise of seven and a half cents an hour.
Sid and Babe are in opposite camps, yet romantic interest is sparked at their first encounter. Despite cajoling from her fellow garment workers, Babe appears to reject Sid ("I'm Not At All in Love"). Meanwhile, Hines, the popular efficiency expert, is in love with Gladys, the company president's secretary, but is pushing her away with his jealous behavior. After witnessing a fight between the couple, Sid's secretary, Mabel, tries to help Hines break from his jealous ways ("I'll Never Be Jealous Again").
Meanwhile, Sid, rejected again by Babe, is forced to confide his feelings to a dictaphone ("Hey There"). During the annual company picnic, kicked off with the official Sleep- Tite Company Anthem, Prez chases after Gladys, who rejects his advances ("Her Is"), a drunken Hines demonstrates his knife throwing act (these knives are thrown at Babe), and Babe warms up to Sid ("Once a Year Day"). As the picnic- goers head home, Prez turns his attentions to Mae, who responds in the positive far more quickly and aggressively than he'd expected ("Her Is (Reprise)"). At Babe's home, Sid's romantic overtures are deflected by Babe, who makes casual conversation on tangential subjects ("Small Talk").
Eventually the walls come down between the two, who admit their love for one another ("There Once Was a Man"), but their estrangement is reinforced when they return to the factory. A slow- down is staged by the union, strongly supported by Babe ("Racing with the Clock (Reprise)"). Sid, as factory superintendent, demands an "honest day's work" and threatens to fire slackers. Babe, however, is still determined to fight for their cause, and kicks her foot into the machinery, causes a general breakdown and Sid reluctantly fires her. As she leaves, he begins to wonder again whether a romance with her is a mistake ("Hey There (Reprise)").
Act IIAt the Union meeting, Gladys (Mae in the 2. Steam Heat"). After the main meeting, the Grievance Committee meets at Babe's house, to discuss further tactics, such as mismatching sizes of pajamas and sewing the fly- buttons onto the bottoms such that they are likely to come off and leave their wearer pants- less. At the meeting, as Prez and Mae's relationship is waning, Sid arrives and tries to smooth things over with Babe. Despite her feelings for Sid, she pushes him away ("Hey There (Reprise)"). Back at the factory, the girls reassure Hines, who is personally offended by the slow down ("Think of the Time I Save").
Sid, now convinced that Babe's championship of the union is justified, takes Gladys out for the evening to a night club, "Hernando's Hideaway" (Hernando's Hideaway), where he wheedles the key to the company's books from her. Hines and Babe each discover the pair and assume they are becoming romantically involved.
Babe storms out, and Hines believes his jealous imaginings have come true ("I'll Never Be Jealous Again Ballet"). Using Gladys' key, Sid accesses the firm's books and discovers that the boss, Hasler, has already tacked on the extra seven and one- half cents to the production cost, but has kept all the extra profits for himself. In Gladys' office, Hines, still jealous out of his mind, flings knives past Sid and Gladys (deliberately missing, he claims), narrowly missing an increasingly paranoid Mr. Hasler. After detaining Hines, Sid then brings about Hasler's consent to a pay raise and rushes to bring the news to the Union Rally, already in progress ("7. ½ Cents"). This news brings peace to the factory and to his love life, allowing him to reconnect with Babe ("There Once Was a Man (Reprise)"). Everyone goes out to celebrate—at Hernando's Hideaway ("Pajama Game").[1]Musical numbers[edit]Act I"The Pajama Game Opening" – Hines"Racing With the Clock" – Factory Workers"A New Town Is a Blue Town" – Sid"I'm Not At All in Love" – Babe and Factory Girls"I'll Never Be Jealous Again" – Mabel and Hines"Hey There" – Sid"Racing With the Clock" (Reprise) – Factory Workers"Sleep- Tite" – Company"Her Is" – Prez and Gladys"Once a Year Day" – Sid, Babe, and Company"Her Is" (Reprise) – Prez and Mae"Small Talk" – Sid and Babe"There Once Was a Man" – Sid and Babe"Hey There" (Reprise) – Sid. Act II"Steam Heat" – Gladys (Mae in 2.
Box Boys"The World Around Us" (added to 2. Sid"Hey There" (Reprise) – Babe"If You Win, You Lose" (added to 2.
Sid and Babe"Think of the Time I Save" – Hines and Factory Girls"Hernando's Hideaway" – Gladys and Company"The Three of Us (Me, Myself and I)" (added to 2. Hines and Gladys"7. ½ Cents" – Prez, Babe and Factory Workers"There Once Was a Man" (Reprise) – Sid and Babe"The Pajama Game Finale" – Full Company. Notes on the music[edit]Two of the songs, 'There Once Was a Man' and 'A New Town Is a Blue Town,' were actually written by Frank Loesser, although they were uncredited.[2]"Hernando's Hideaway"[edit]For the 2.
Harry Connick, Jr., played the piano, when Gladys (Megan Lawrence), Sid, and Company were on stage for "Hernando's Hideaway".[3] "The length and form of the song remain steady," Kathleen Marshall said, "but he can improvise within it.""Steam Heat"[edit]In the original production, and in the film version, the famed dance number "Steam Heat" was danced by Gladys. In the 2. 00. 6 revival, the number was made with Mae (Joyce Chittick), instead of Gladys.[3] Kathleen Marshall explains: "Hines accuses Gladys of being a flirt, and she's not. So does it make sense that she'd go and strut her stuff in front of the whole union? Hines would say, 'Aha, you floozy, I caught you!' Also, she's the boss's secretary, so why would she be at a union meeting? I think it's much more fun that Gladys doesn't really let go until she goes out with Sid, gets real drunk, and throws caution to the wind."New songs for the 2.
The Three of Us (Me, Myself and I)"[edit]Words and music by Richard Adler; in 2. Hines (Michael Mc. Kean) performed the new number, "The Three of Us" at show's end with Gladys (Megan Lawrence).[3] At the time of the revival, Adler was quoted as saying that he wrote the song for Jimmy Durante in 1. It was written for Jimmy Durante," says Mc. Kean, "and Durante used to do it in his act, but he never recorded it, so it’s kind of an orphan." The song was actually featured in the 1. Olympus 7- 0. 00, part of the ABC Stage 6.
Stephen Sondheim's Evening Primrose. Eddie Foy, Jr. (who had played Hines in the original Broadway and movie versions of The Pajama Game) introduced the song in Olympus 7- 0.
Command Recordssoundtrack album. Donald O'Connor, Larry Blyden and Phyllis Newman also starred in the TV special with Foy."The World Around Us"[edit]"The World Around Us" was part of the 1. Broadway previews and opening, but was dropped during the first week of the Broadway run, replaced by Babe's reprise of "Hey There". This would leave Sid with no songs in the second act, aside from the reprise of "There Once was a Man". The number was restored for the 2. Broadway revival, allowing star Harry Connick, Jr., to have a second- act song.[3]"If You Win, You Lose"[edit]Words and music by Richard Adler; for the 1.
Hey There" reprise, there was a new song, "Watch Your Heart". Retitled "If You Win, You Lose", the song has been heard in recent productions of the show and was heard in the 2. Broadway production. Production history[edit]Original Broadway[edit]The original Broadway production opened at the St. James Theatre on May 1. November 2. 4, 1.
It was directed by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins and featured choreography by Bob Fosse.