East Kilbride Light Opera Club - The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game - 2005

Index

History

The Cast

The Pajama Game - Synopsis

cover of programme

The show opens with Hines the efficiency expert urging the girls to work harder, and is supported in this by the Manager Mr. Hasler in the cost cutting exercise. Sid, the new superintendant causes a great deal of excitement amongst the girls who find him attractive. The workers feel they are underpaid and are looking for a seven and a half cent rise. Of course Mr. Hasler is against this but there is something suspect about what is hidden in his file which requires his secretary Gladys, to keep it locked and the key hidden. Hines who is in love with Gladys is consumed by his jealousy.

Sid " manhandles" one of the male workers and the case is taken up by Babe, the leader of the grievance committee. Babe and Sid become romantically involved, but after the works picnic things go awry for Babe and Sid who now are on opposite sides regarding the wage rise. Babe supports a go-slow and of course Sid demands an "honest day's work ..." and threatens to fire the slackers.

Babe causes a general breakdown at the factory and is fired by Sid. Hines supports Babe. Sid, in a fit of pique feigns an interest in Gladys and takes her out for the evening to the nightclub "Hernando's Hideaway". During the evening he finds out that Mr. Hasler has been fiddling the books, and manages to persuade him to consent to the pay rise, which brings peace to the factory and rekindles his relationship with Babe.

The Pajama Game - 2005
by arrangement with Musicscope Ltd.

Music & Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell
Based on The novel "7½ Cents" by Richard Bissell

Production team
Director - Ruth Stevenson
Choreographer - Rita-Jane Kinloch
Musical Director - Cameron Merriweather

Cast in order of appearance
Hines - Alastair Campbell
Prez - Robert Kirkham
Joe - Jim Kirkpatrick
Hasler - John Shaw
Gladys - Carol Alston
Sid - Craig Lundie
Mabel - Ann Rodger
1st Helper - Robbie Crawford
2nd Helper - Peter Sime
Charlie - Campbell McDougall
Babe Williams - Frances Taylor
Mae - Pauline Moscardini
Brenda - Margo McTaggart
Poopsie - Carol Meldrum
Max - Bill Ginn
Pop - Peter King
Mara - Elizabeth Porter

Workers at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory
Bruce Arthur, Morag Arthur, Dorothy Bedford, Jean Cook, Robbie Crawford, Sandra Crawford, Anneliese Cannon, Jim Kirkpatrick, Jim Lamb, Irene McCann, Maureen McDermott, Elizabeth Pettit, Elizabeth Porter, Karen Rodger, Peter Sime, Bill Struthers

Dancers
Fiona Francis, Dawn Gough, Laura Kelly, Linsey Meldrum, Jennifer Thomson.

Backstage
Stage Manager - Cameron Neill
Club Accompanist - Carol Hannigan
Assistant Stage Manager - Graham McFadyen
Lighting - Carrick McGhie
Property Mistress - Susan Struthers
Prompter - Frances Baird
Wardrobe Mistress - Gillian Dunker

Performance Details
28th February - 5th March 2005
The Village Theatre,
East Kilbride

The Action takes place in a small town in Mid West America - The time is the 1950s

Synopsis of Scenes

Act 1
Scene 1 - Opening
Scene 2 - Factory
Scene 3 - Factory Hallway
Scene 4 - The Office
Scene 5 - Crossover - to the Picnic
Scene 6 - The Picnic
Scene 7 - Crossover - From the Picnic
Scene 8 - Kitchen in Babe's House
Scene 9 - Factory Hallway
Scene 10 - Factory

Act 2
Scene 1 - Eagle Hall (Factory Yard)
Scene 2 -Kitchen in Babe's House
Scene 3 - Factory Hallway
Scene 4 - The Office
Scene 5 - In front of Hernando's Hideaway
Scene 6 - Hernando's Hideaway
Scene 7 - The Office
Scene 8 - The Factory Hallway
Finale - Hernando's Hideaway

Musical Numbers

Act 1
Overture - Orchestra
"The Pajama Game" - Hines
"Racing With the Clock" - Chorus
"A New Town is a Blue Town" - Sid
"I'm not at all in love" - .Babe & Girls
"I'll Never be Jealous Again" - Hines & Mabel
"Hey There" - Sid
"Her Is" - Prez & Gladys
"Sleep-Tite" - Chorus
"Once a Year Day" - Sid, Babe & Chorus
Reprise: "Her Is" - Prez & Mae
"Small-Talk" - Sid & Babe
"There once was a Man" - Sid & Babe
Reprise: "Hey There" - Sid

Act 2
"Steam Heat" - Gladys & Dancers
Reprise: "Hey There" - Babe
"Think of the Time I Save" - Hines & Girls
"Hernando's Hideaway" - Gladys, Sid & Chorus
"Seven and a Half Cents" - Prez, Babe & Chorus
"The Pajama Game" - Full Company

East Kilbride Light Opera Club Committee
Hon. President - Jack Tait
Hon. Vice-President - W.Gordon McNay, OBE
President - Ann M. Struthers
Vice-President - J. Bruce Arthur
Secretary - Pauline Moscardini
Treasurer - Elizabeth Struthers
Committee
Robbie Crawford, Bill Ginn, Morag Arthur, Gillian Dunker, Margo McTaggart, Jim Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Porter