And all the more reason to be happy that lyricist Jerry Ross and composer Richard Adler, both in their 20s, were signed on to write a score that doesn’t have a clinker in it. Nervous producers could decide to forget the whole thing.Īll the more reason to be happy that Bissell and George Abbott transformed the narrative about a management-labor dispute at a pajama factory into a breezy tuner inġ954 and that, as a belated result the Encores! series can make it the winning 2002 season finale it now is. What with the description of the seamstresses as “flibbertigibbets” and the leering down the fronts ofĭresses and the married men grousing to girls about how their wives don’t understand them and the annual office picnic hijinks, the depiction of sex in the workplace might look and feel too much like harassment. If The Pajama Game were being considered today for adaptation into a musical from Richard Bissell’s novel 7½ Cents, it might never happen.
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