OF MUSIC & DANCE OF TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE THE PAJAMA GAME A musical based on the novel 7 ½ cents by Richard Bissell FRI 17–SAT 18 JUN 19.30h SAT 18 JUN 14.30h SUN 19 JUN 15.00h STRATFORD CIRCUS ARTS CENTRE programme: £3 THE PAJAMA GAME Presented by Trinity Laban final year Musical Theatre students. Book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell Music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross Based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell This amateur production is presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD. on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of NEW YORK. SYNOPSIS The dangers of a workplace romance are explored to hysterical effect in this romantic comedy from the creators of Damn Yankees. Conditions at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory are anything but peaceful, as sparks fly between new superintendent Sid Sorokin and Babe Williams, leader of the union grievance committee. Their stormy relationship comes to a head when the workers strike for a 7½ cent pay increase, setting off not only a conflict between management and labour, but a battle of the sexes as well. MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I ACT II The Pajama Game Steam Heat Racing With The Clock Hey There (Reprise) A New Town Is A Blue Town Think Of The Time I Save Racing With The Clock (Reprise) Hernando’s Hideaway I’m Not At All In Love Seven-And-A-Half Cents I’ll Never Be Jealous Again There Once Was A Man (Reprise) Hey There The Pajama Game Finale Her Is Seven-And-A-Half Cents (Reprise) Sleep-Tite Once A Year Day Her Is (Reprise) Small Talk There Once Was A Man Slow Down Act I Finale 3 cast list Zoe Rogers BABE Nicole Michelle Lilly Palmer GLADys Jessica Atkins Aveen Biddle MABEL Paige-Louise Cochrane Tessa Lanney MAE Rosie Barber Catherine Hankinson BRENDA Jessica Hart Daisy Dean POOPSIE Tabitha Debenham Jenny Lovell SARAH Zoe Oliver MARY Stacey O’Shea (understudies Catherine Hankinson, Zoe Oliver, Jessica Hart, Daisy Dean STEAM HEAT GIRLS Stacey O’Shea) Ryan Ollett HINES Henry Roadnight PRES Haydn Cox SID Dylan Suddaby HASLER Andrew James POP/FACTORY WORKER/DANCER Adam Gass MAX/1ST HELPER/DANCER Philip Murch JOE David Sharp 2ND HELPER/waitER Andrew James CHARLIE 5 banD creatiVE TEAM Musical Director Director Tony Castro Karen Rabinowitz Violin 1 Musical Director Rosie Judge Tony Castro Isabella Fleming Choreographer Violin 2 Julie Armstrong Sophie-Anne Chaplin Lighting Designer Iryna Glyebova Jake Wiltshire Viola Set and Costume Designer Yee Sin Ian Teague Cello Costume Supervisor Meg Brookes Cristiano Casimiro Reeds Sound Design Tracy Manning Paul Gavin Caitlin Jeffery Sound 2 Darryl Alan Noel-Davila Ella Montgomery Emily Maloney Bethany Miles Production LX Ant Doran Trumpet Connor Smither Production Manager Sarah Owens Dennis Charles Benjamin Whitcher Stage Manager Trombone Sarah Rhodes Cannings Siddhartha Lethbridge Deputy Stage Manager Kiran Chatterjee Shannon Gibson Durr Ross Lumbard Assistant Director Guitar Stacey O’Shea Aaron Horlock Dialect Coach Bass Gemma Maddock Hamish Nockles-Moore Dance Captains Percussion Daisy Dean Rhys Davies Jessica Hart Keys Lawrence Michalowski Scholarship Key Trinity College London Scholar Trinity Laban Award Scholar Leverhulme Arts Scholar BIOgraphies KAREN RABINOWITZ DIREctor TONY castrO MUsicaL DIREctor Directing credits include: Hansel & Gretel (Stratford Musical director/supervisor credits include: City of East), Goodbye Barcelona (Arcola), Love’s Labours Angels (Royal Academy of Music), Phantom of the Lost (Suffolk Chamber Opera), Unburied Treasures Opera (Cameron Mackintosh/West End), Miss Saigon (Rosemary Branch), Nostalgia Brand Chewing Gum (Cameron Mackintosh / West End), The Iron Man (Pentameters), Ain’t We Got Fun? (Lyric Studio), Safety (Young Vic /Pete Townshend), Moll Flanders (Lyric in Numbers and It’s All in the Stars (Molecule Theatre), Hammersmith), Side by Side by Sondheim (Tour of Alice Through the Looking Glass (Dundee Rep), Twelfth Far), Dick Wittington (E&B /Birmingham). Night and Hamlet (Waterville, Maine), revues for the Piano/keyboard credits include: Les Miserables Edinburgh Fringe and Covent Garden Festival. (Cameron Mackintosh / West End), Wonderful Town As choreographer/movement director: The Way of the (Bill Kenwright / West End), Snoopy (West End, World, and dances for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Cheltenham), The Second Mrs Tanqueray (RNT on (National Theatre), La Traviata and Masquerade, (Opera tour), Amadeus (RNT/West End), Wild Honey (RNT), North), Eugene Onegin, (Scottish Opera), The Wizard Don Juan (RNT), Toad of Toad Hall (Bill Kenwright/ of Oz (Opera House, Zurich), Jesus Christ, Superstar Mermaid), Street Scene (ENO), Waste (West End), (York Theatre Royal), The Innocent Mistress (Derby Chess (Churchill Theatre). Playhouse), Dead White Males (Nuffield Southampton), Tony Castro has had a long and successful career as The Last Yankee (Mercury Colchester) Metamorphosis, a freelance conductor, musical director, keyboard The Wind in the Willows (Everyman, Cheltenham). player, vocal coach, composer and educator. He From 1995 – 2014 she was leader for the Musical ran Higher Education performing arts degrees and Theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music, where departments at Central School of Speech and Drama, her musical productions included Follies, A Little Night and Rose Bruford College, was Principal of the Music, A Chorus Line, City of Angels, Nine, Little Me, Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and Director Sweet Charity, The Pajama Game, Happy End, The of Music at The BRIT School. Wiz, and A… My Name is Alice. Plays included The Importance of Being Earnest, The Way of the World, California Suite and London Suite. Karen is particularly interested in working on new musicals and plays, and recent projects have included a musical adaptation of I Capture the Castle, and Monsters from Hollywood, about McCarthyism in the American film industry. 7 9 BIOgraphies JULIE ArmstrONG CHOREographER jake Wiltshire Lighting DESIGNER Choreography credits include: Little Me, The Pajama Recent lighting credits include: Le nozze di Figaro Game, Follies, Sweet Charity, Company, Nine, Into (Turku Opera), Rigoletto (Iford Arts Festival), Il Pastor The Woods, The Wiz, A Little Night Music, City Of Fido (The London Handel Society and RCMIOS), Don Angels, A Chorus Line (Royal Academy of Music), Giovanni (Opera Faber), Ariodante, Cendrillon, The Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Stratford), Lighthouse, Eugene Onegin, Die Dreigroschenoper, UK premiere of Naked Boys Singing, (Madam Jo Jo’s), Hansel und Gretel, The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Stones in his Pockets (Upstairs at the Gatehouse Herring, Cosi Fan Tutte and many other productions Theatre), The Swingle Singers Album Concert for Royal Academy Opera, Carmen (ENO Baylis), The (Bloomsbury Theatre), Ash (Arcola Theatre), Elton Snow Maiden, Macbeth and Acante et Cephise (UCO John Concert (Royal Albert Hall), Doctors (BBC), Opera), Don Giovanni (Amersham Festival of Music). Witloof Bay (Eurovision song contest), Investiture As an Associate lighting designer Jake has recently of Stephen Sondheim’s London Concert (Royal lit the US premiere of Peter Maxwell Davis and David Academy of Music). Pountney’s Kommilitonen! at the Lincoln Center. Jake Theatre credits include: Annie, Stepping Out, Evita, has also lit for theatre, independent films and Perrier Billy Elliot, The Snow Queen, Jolson, Chicago, Beauty Award winning comedy productions and in 2009 and the Beast, Merrily We Roll Along, Scrooge, Magic he was made an Honorary Associate of the Royal of the Musicals, The Cheeky Chappie, Just So, Follies, Academy of Music. West Side Story, Godspell, Spring and Port Wine, Of Mice and Men. TV credits: Close and True, BAFTA nominated Hero IAN teague SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER of the Hour, Chucklevision, Crimewatch, Geordie Runs for Gold, The Two Ronnie’s, Laurence Olivier Awards, Ian Teague has designed over 120 productions. Best Pebble Mill, Des O’Connor Show, The Royal Variety known for small scale touring, TIE and young people’s Performance, Red Mountain coffee, Dog Eat Dog, theatre, Ian has also designed main house productions, Applied Learning. community plays and site specific work. He is also a lecturer and workshop facilitator. Radio/Recording credits: Merrily We Roll Along, Jolson, Just So, Scrooge. His designs for small cast productions of Shakespeare formed part of the British Golden Triga winning entry at the Prague Quadrennial 2003. acknOWLEDGEMENTS TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE STRATFORD CIRCUS OF MUSIC AND DANCE ARTS CENTRE Patron Chief Operating Officer HRH The Duke of Kent KG Alison Darren Chairman Events and Hires Manager Lord Lipsey Vanessa Dalton Principal Front of House Manager Professor Anthony Bowne Vicky Harrison Director of Music Marketing and Sales Manager Dr Claire Mera-Nelson David Reynolds Assistant Director of Music and Head of Technical Services Head of Performance Andy Sellar Havilland Willshire Technicians Programme Leader, Winston Gilbert Musical Theatre Performance Catrin Powell Victoria Stretton Music Manager and Head of Music Planning Sonali Banerjee Assistant Music Manager Sara Daintree Orchestra and Ensembles Manager Philip Knight Performance Operations Manager Marianne Chapman Performance Operations Coordinator Laura Kitson Department Coordinator Gemma Chance Thank you to: Unicorn Theatre, Almeida Theatre, National Youth Theatre 11 SUPPOrt US Trinity Laban is one of the most innovative and forward-focused of the UK conservatoires. 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