Cast recording for The Pajama Game set for release

By Amy Somensky Apr 5, 2006, 3:55 GMT

A battle erupts when workers at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory demand a 7 1/2 cent pay increase. Matters are made worse when the head of the Union Grievance Committee falls in love with one of the company\'s leaders, Sid Sorokin. ...more

Purchasers of the upcoming cast recording of The Pajama Game will also receive a CD featuring selections from Harry Connick Jr.'s musical, Thou Shalt Not.

The two disc set will be released on May 9th and is now available for preorder at www.sonymusicstore.com. Titled, Harry on Broadway, Act 1, the first disc will feature the cast recording for The Pajama Game. The second disc will conclude the musical's score and feature selections from Thou Shalt Not sung by Connick Jr., and his Pajama Game costar Kelli O'Hara.

The cast list is as follows:

The Pajama Game
1. Overture
2. Racing With The Clock
3. A New Town Is A Blue Town
4. I'm Not At All In Love
5. I'll Never Be Jealous Again
6. Hey There
7. Sleep Tite
8. Her Is
9. Once A Year Day
10. Once A Year Day Playoff
11. Her Is
12. Small Talk
13. There Once Was A Man
14. Factory Music / Slow Down
15. Hey There
16. Steam Heat
17. The World Around Us
18. Hey There Reprise / If You Win You Lose
19. Think Of The Time I Save
20. Hernando's Hideaway
21. The Three Of Us
22. Seven-And-a-Half Cents
23. There Once Was A Man
24. Hernando's Jive
25. The Pajama Game

Thou Shalt Not
1. Oh, My Dear (Something's Gone Wrong)
2. Can't We Tell
3. Such Love
4. I Like Love More
5. My Little World
6. All Things
7. I Need To Be In Love
8. Oh! Ain't That Sweet
9. The Other Hours
10. Take Advantage
11. Take Her To The Mardi Gras 

Thou Shalt Not ran for just 85 performances from October 2001 to January 2002 and featured music and lyrics by Connick, Jr.

Kathleen Marshall directs and choreographs The Pajama Game, which is set to run at the American Airlines Theater through June 11th.

Starring is Harry Connick Jr. as Sid Sorokin, Kelli O'Hara as Babe Williams, Megan Lawrence as Gladys, Michael McKean as Hines, Peter Benson as Prez, Joyce Chittick as Mae, Michael McCormick as Pop, Richard Poe as Hasler, and Roz Ryan as Mabel. 

The Pajama Game is inspired by Richard Bissell's novel 7 1/2 Cents. The musical features music and lyrics by Richard Alder and Jerry Ross and a book by George Abbott and Bissell. In the musical, a battle erupts when workers at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory demand a 7 1/2 cent pay increase. Matters are made worse when the head of the Union Grievance Committee falls in love with one of the company's leaders, Sid Sorokin.

The show originally ran on Broadway from May 13, 1954 to November 24, 1956.

For The Pajama Game tickets visit www.roundabouttheater.org.