The run closed November 24, 1956
- Opened
- May 13, 1954
- Closed
- November 24, 1956
- Performances
- 1,063
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 7th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Pajama Game 4 more that season
| 1955 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1973 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Zoya Leporska | 65 perf. |
| 1999 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer | |
| 2006 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Kathleen Marshall | 129 perf. |
Who was in it66 named
Marion Colby
Thelma Pelish
Rudy Adamo
Ralph Chambers
William David
Bob Dixon
Jack Drummond
Robert Evans
Ralph Farnworth
John Ford
Jim Hutchison
Lida Loehring
Eric Kristen
Mara Landi
Dale Moreda
Marsha Reynolds
Mary Roche
Augustin Rodriguez
Mary Stanton
Ben Vargas
Ann Wallace
Gordon Woodburn
Neile Adams
Del Anderson
Betty Buday
Michele Burke
Art Carroll
Frank Derbas
Sandra Devlin
Stephen Douglass
Phil Gerard
Ruth Gillette
Charlene Hargrove
Fred Hillebrand
Dee Dee Irwin
Jack Konzal
Kenneth Leroy
Doris Lorenz
Lynda Lynch
Patricia Marand
Pat Marshall
Jack Matthew
Colleen O Connor
Basha Regis
Alton Ruff
Billy Sumner
Cordelia Ware
Julie Wilson
27 of these 66 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 39 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters12 roles recorded
Bob Carroll Sid Sorokin
Mindy Carson Babe Williams
Eddie Foy Jr. Vernon Hines
Dorothy Love Gladys
Benny Baker Prez
? Mae
Justine Johnston Mabel
Ralph Dunn Hasler
Dave Mallen Pop
Jackie McElroy Poopsie
Nolan Van Way Charlie
Alberta Hopkins Brenda
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- George Abbott, Jerome Robbins
- Choreographer
- Bob Fosse
- Producer
- Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith & Harold Prince
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
- Damn Yankees was something of a stylistic follow-up to The Pajama Game since it was put together by the same songwriters, librettist-director, choreographer, producers, music director (Harold Hastings), and orchestrator (Don Walker). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 162
- Most shows were lighhearted in nature, and it’s notable the critics often used such words as carnival, jubilee, fandango, hoedown, haymaker, and festival to describe not just a particular song or dance sequence but also to characterize their take-away, overall impressions of the musicals they reviewed. But if fun was t… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 2
- But there was one more hit in his future, the long-running smash The Pajama Game in which he introduced “Hey, There,” one of the theatre’s most enduring ballads. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 242
- Carnival in Flanders holds the record for the shortest Broadway run to yield its star a Tony Award and John Raitt bounced back in the season’s final musical, the smash hit The Pajama Game . Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 340
- Earlier in the season, the novice team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross had written a number of songs for the revue John Murray Anderson’s Almanac . Five months later, their score for the smash hit The Pajama Game offered a hit-parade-load of popular songs that included “Hey, There,” “Hernando’s Hideaway,” and “Steam He… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 388
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Pajama Game at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.