The Pajama Game Plays First Preview on Jan. 19

By: Jan. 17, 2006
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The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of the classic musical comedy The Pajama Game will begin previews on Thursday, January 19th on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street) for an opening on Thursday, February 23rd.  The limited engagement is scheduled to run 20 weeks through June 11th.

The musical, which will star Harry Connick Jr. (composer/lyricist of Thou Shalt Not, South Pacific movie with Glenn Close) as Sid, Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza, Dracula) as Babe and Michael McKean (Hairspray) as Hines, will also feature Megan Lawrence (Urinetown, Les Miserables) as Gladys, Joyce Chittick (Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town) as Mae, Peter Benson (Wonderful Town, Little Me) as Prez, Michael McCormick (Gypsy, Marie Christine) as Pop and Ganzenlicher, Richard Poe (Fiddler on the Roof, 1776), and Roz Ryan (One Mo' Time, Chicago) as Mabel. 

The Roundabout Theatre Company will produce the show with commercial producers, Jeffrey Richards, Scott Landis and James Fuld. Kathleen Marshall (Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me, Kate) is set to direct and choreograph the show.

The Pajama Game is to feature two new songs in its classic Richard Adler-Jerry Ross score, and the original book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell will be revised by Peter Ackerman. The Pajama Game is set during union disputes at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory, and centers around a love story between two people representing opposing sides of the dispute.
  
The Pajama Game opened at the St. James Theatre on May 13th, 1954 to run for 1,063 performances; the show won Tonys for Best Musical, for Bob Fosse's choreography and for Carol Haney as Best Featured Actress in a Musical (understudy Shirley MacLaine would become a star by going on for her one night). The show, which was directed by Abbott and Jerome Robbins, features such hits in its score as "Hernando's Hideaway," "Steam Heat," "There Once Was a Man," and "Hey There." The Pajama Game became a 1957 film starring Doris Day and was revived once before in 1973.

For more information, and to purchase tickets - visit www.roundabouttheatre.org. 

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