Adler: The Pajama Game
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RICHARD ADLER
Adler: The Pajama Game
John Raitt, Janis Paige, Eddie Foy / Original 1954 Broadway Cast
[ Columbia Broadway Masterworks / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 January 2000
The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Dances were staged by Bob Fosse in his choreography debut. The story deals with labor troubles and romance in a pajama factory.
The original Broadway production opened on May 13, 1954, at the St. James Theatre, and ran for 1,063 performances, with a brief stop at the Shubert Theatre at the end of the run. It was revived in 1973, and again in 2006 by The Roundabout Theatre Company.
The original production, produced by Frederick Brisson, Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince, won a Tony Award for Best Musical.
The 2006 Broadway revival won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. The musical is a popular choice for community and school group productions.
Tracks:
1. Overture
2. The Pajama Game / Racing with the Clock
3. A New Town Is a Blue Town
4. I'm Not at All in Love
5. I'll Never Be Jealous Again
6. Hey There
7. Her Is
8. Sleep Tite
9. Once-A-Year Day
10. Small Talk
11. There Once Was a Man
12. Steam Heat
13. Think of the Time I Save
14. Hernando's Hideaway
15. Seven-and-a-half Cents
16. Finale: The Pajama Game
BONUS TRACKS: "Stage Struck" (1954)
17. Interview With Jerry Ross (BONUS)
18. The World Around Us -- John Raitt
19. Interview With Jerry Ross (BONUS)
20. There Once Was a Man -- John Raitt, Janis Paige
21. Interview With Jerry Ross (BONUS)
22. Hernando's Hideaway -- Richard Adler (vocal), Jerry Ross (piano)
