Word: pajamaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes a heap of money to put a show into a Broadway house, and a heap more to keep it there. A smash-hit musical like The Pajama Game (TIME, May 24) cost a relatively low $190,000 to get started but it has to gross $31,000 a week to break even. Fanny cost its producers $265,000, has a weekly break-even figure of $34,000 and must run 17 weeks to pay off its cost. In Fanny's case, however, there is little worry-its weekly gross so far is a whopping...
...composer, Frederico Valerio, has avoided the pitfall of patterning his score after successful musicals. There is nothing in On With the Show which sounds like Guys and Dolls, The Pajama Game, or Can-Can. A steady radio listener, however, might recognize the Ajax commercial or the overture to a toothpaste jingle...
...afternoon she covered 44 galleries, six centuries of paintings and a formal tea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pausing to comment on a favorite Renoir or Rembrandt, and startling the sketching classes. That evening she went to see The Pajama Game. The show, she explained, was her own choice; for weeks she had listened to Princess Margaret's records of Hey There and Hernando's Hideaway, until the tunes "buzzed" in her ears. During the intermission she sipped champagne backstage with the enthralled cast and learned what a Western sandwich is ("It sounds delicious").* Three women from...
Periodically, Ross and Adler sang and played their songs for Veteran Producer George Abbott ("one of the most frightening experiences we ever had"), and last fall, after three years of hearing their offerings, Abbott gave them the script for Pajama Game (from Richard Bissell's novel 7½ Cents})-and a month in which to write the first four songs. The big audition came on Christmas Eve, when they performed the songs for a battery of theatrical big guns. "We were scared to death," says Adler. "It was a lousy Christmas Eve." But next day they were told...
...Bale. The project appealed to them from the start. Both songwriters shy from commonplace situations, and Pajama Game's unconventional pajama-factory setting and management-labor struggle bristled with off-beat possibilities. They liked the idea of a rough, tough chorus, and wrote "fish or cut bait" parts...