Original Creative Team

The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opened at the St. James Theatre May 13, 1954. The musical, directed by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins with choreography by Bob Fosse, played 1,063 performances before closing November 24, 1959. The production earned three Tony Award nominations, winning all including Best Musical.

Based on the novel 7 ½,The Pajama Game tells the story of a labor furor over a seven-and-a-half-cent pay raise at a pajama plant that complicates the course of true love for Sid Sorokin, the new factory superintendent, and Babe Williams, the feisty firebrand heading the Union Grievance Committee. The musical features music and lyrics by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler and a book by Abbott and Richard Bissell.