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August 13 to August 18: John Raitt will star in the hit musical "Pajama Game...
August 13 to August 18: John Raitt will star in the musical hit, "Pajama Game...
...project like this it would have been sheer madness to settle for anything less than top talent. Broadway Composer Richard Adler (The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees) did the score and lyrics. One of the men who won Oscars for scoring West Side Story stayed up all night doing the arrangement. Musicians came from the New York Philharmonic. The high-paid, high-caliber Hi-Lo's were there to do the singing. After 29 takes. Composer Adler was still dissatisfied. "It must have that ping. That's the feel I want implemented, band-wise." Take No. 30 was pingsville...
Look here. Take it from me. Drumbeats and Song's production of The Pajama Game has got just about everything: it's got the twist, a chorus line of dolls, the Hencken sisters (both of 'em), magnificent leads, even a great Pop. But, as Chairman Khrushchev has said, statistics fry no pancakes. Just let me say I loved it; it's the most exuberant show ever...
...anybody yet knows, Drumbeats and Song may have in The Pajama Game a superb show or a shuddering wreck of a production. In any case, the organization behind the production, Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid, is no wreck at all. It came into being in 1949, for the purpose (so runs the Charter) of giving scholarship aid to "deserving and needy undergraduates without reference to scholastic standing and with preference given to those who have contributed significantly to college life...