#The Pajama Game

[yanortaboi]

[dayniac]

Doris …. The Pajama Game

[newyorkthegoldenage]

It's no secret that the British Royal Family of the time loved Broadway musicals. During her visit to New York, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother got a chance to see The Pajama Game at the St. James Theater before the London production opened, October 27, 1954.

Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP

[sagindie]

Happy Labor Day! 💪

[seasonofthewitch06]

The Pajama Game (1957) really said union rights

[pablolf]

The Pajama Game - Steam Heat

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[starkiddreamcasting]

August 2023 Starkid Dreamcast Poll

Hello! I hope you all are ready for another poll where you tell me what dreamcasts you want to see for the month of September! Remember that the highest voted four will be the dreamcasts next month (And there are some shows that have been on this poll forever).

Remember to make your vote count!

[franciegummstarstruck]

Happy Vday dearhearts! 💗🤗🌹🎵

[jamiethenerd]

whoever cast the pajama game for broadway really found people with the most grating voices ever

[yanortaboi]

[dayniac]

Doris and John Raitt … The Pajama Game

[haveyouseenthismusical]

[corvid-gremlin-official]

throwback to last sunday when my former theatre teacher went with my family to see a production of the pajama game and one of the leads was a college dance friend of mine who i had a lot of interactions with in my professor's piece, and before the show my mom was telling her that "yeah there was a part where she was like, dangling upside down from his shoulders" and the teacher (also a family friend) was like "was it like a swing thing??" and i went "well... not really"

and after the show i showed her the part (which is a short time after another section of the dance where I quite literally shoved this guy by the chin, yea this dance was wack) where I was indeed hanging upside down from his shoulders and holding around his torso

and her reaction was "....well!"

christian homeschool theatre teacher and family friend discovers what her friend's kid is doing in college dance, 10/10 experience

[unwelcome-ephestion]

I absolutely adore Silk Stockings, Fred Astaire's last picture before his penultimate retirement (!). It's playfully parodic of Cold War politics, but in this sequence, it's also parodic of more modern musicals, of loud technicolour and of integrated ballet. This is a light-hearted jibe at the arguably more pretentious pictures of Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli (see Brigadoon, or An American in Paris) versus the seemingly more straightforward pictures preferred by Astaire. This one is choreographed by Hermes Pan, one imagines with a great deal of Astaire's own input. Pan had been choreographing for Astaire from the 1930s when he first made it big in the movies, so it's a lovely touch having him create moves that throw back to the last three decades of Astaire's career, as well as that pastiche the balletic vocabulary of the new generation. It's a lot of fun - and check out Janis Paige! She never made it big in the movies, but only died last month aged 100, leaving behind a huge legacy, most notably as the original star of The Pajama Game. She's magnificent opposite Astaire in this number.

[archaalen]

I'm going to go full Theater Kid on this one:

Writer's Guild of America voted to strike, good for them