PAJAMA GAME starts March 2 at American Airlines!!!

So...months ago it was annoucned that Harry Connick Jr. was signed on to star in the long awaited revival of THE PAJAMA GAME. Scheduled to direct & choreograph was WONDERFUL TOWN grand dame Kathleen Marshall. Since then we have heard NOTHING about what seemed like a fated project. However, I have been hearing some rumblings that ROUNDABOUT is near ready to announce THE PAJAMA GAME as their Spring 06 show at the American Airlines theatre...sounds promising to me.

Leaving next years FOR SURE musical reviavals to be SWEENY TODD, THREE PENNY OPERA, and quite possibly THE PAJAMA GAME. The later 2 being Roundabout productions. Well at least they arent butchering Sohndheim anymore.

Updated On: 8/15/05 at 10:39 AM

I don't consider the Assassins revival a butchering.

And it is indeed true...PLAYBILL & VARIETY are now reporting it! Yay! Is anyone else pretty darn excited?


Harry Connick Pajama Game to Play Roundabout's American Airlines March 2

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94545.html

I was not a fan of Roundabout's Pacific Overtures (although I am not wild about the show itself), but I LOVED their revival of Assassins. An amazing production with a tremendous cast. Certainly not a butchering.

oh my god...i am SO EXCITED for this production. hopefully I will be able to attend the first preview. I am definitely bringing my Thou Shalt Not CD booklet for him to sign at the stage door. Any suggestions for Babe?

There was a seemingly endless thread of Babe suggestions a while back.

Maybe Sutton Foster or Susan Egan . . . (please NOT Erin Dilly -- she was so dull in Chitty.)

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The only suggestion I'd make is be careful what you say about "Thou Shalt Not" around Mr. Connick Jr.

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I liked both Assassins AND Pacific Overtures. I must really be nuts. But I never saw the originals of either, so that was not part of my judgment.

As to The Pajama Game, I'm looking forward to this one. I like Harry Connick Jr. -- as long as he's not writing songs about tugboats.

Brooke Shields.

For some reason, I always imagined Babe being slightly older than Sid...

oh calvin...if only that were possible...

i'm actually excited about this news... would love to see sutton foster take it on instead of that stupid drowsy chaperone stuff... however, star power would allow for brooke shields, and she deserves to create a role (well, not create, but originate in a revival... you know what i mean!)