The Pajama Game

The Broadway musical ‘Pajama Game’ was based on Seven and a Half Cents, a comic novel about labour relations written by Richard Bissell. Doris Day stars as an employee at a pajama factory who becomes the spokesperson for her fellow workers when management refuses to give them a 7 1/2 cent pay rise. Complicating matters is the fact that Management is represented by handsome John Raitt, who happens to be in love with Doris. A subplot involves Day’s freewheeling co-worker Carol Haney and her insanely jealous boyfriend, factory-manager Eddie Foy Jr. Many of the cast members from the original Broadway production (Raitt, Haney, Foy, Reta Shaw, Peter Gennaro etc.) are here in this film version, as are most of the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross songs: highlights include “”Hey There””, “”Steam Heat””, “”Hernando’s Hideaway””, “”There Once Was a Man””, and the title song. The choreography was carried out by the world famous Bob Fosse, and Pajama Game became a terrific success at the box-office.