THE PAJAMA GAME

FRI 17 – SAT 18 JUN 19.30h SAT 18 JUN 14.30h SUN 19 JUN 15.00h

STRATFORD CIRCUS ARTS CENTRE PROGRAMME: £3

A musical based on the novel 7 ½ cents by Richard Bissell

TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC & DANCE

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.

Presented by Trinity Laban final year Musical Theatre students.

Book by George Abbott and Richard BissellMusic 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.

THE PAJAMA GAME

SYNOPSIS

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ACT IThe Pajama Game

Racing With The Clock

A New Town Is A Blue Town

Racing With The Clock (Reprise)

I’m Not At All In Love

I’ll Never Be Jealous Again

Hey There

Her Is

Sleep-Tite

Once A Year Day

Her Is (Reprise)

Small Talk

There Once Was A Man

Slow Down

Act I Finale

ACT IISteam Heat

Hey There (Reprise)

Think Of The Time I Save

Hernando’s Hideaway

Seven-And-A-Half Cents

There Once Was A Man (Reprise)

The Pajama Game Finale

Seven-And-A-Half Cents (Reprise)

MUSICAL NUMBERS

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CAST LIST

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BReNdAPOOPSIeSARAHmARY

STeAm HeAT GIRlSHINeSPReSSId

HASleRPOP/FACTORY WORKeR /dANCeR

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2Nd HelPeR/WAITeRCHARlIe

Zoe Rogers

Lilly Palmer

Aveen Biddle

Tessa Lanney

Catherine Hankinson

Daisy Dean

Jenny Lovell

Zoe Oliver

Zoe Oliver, Jessica Hart, Daisy Dean

Ryan Ollett

Henry Roadnight

Haydn Cox

Dylan Suddaby

Andrew James

Adam Gass

Philip Murch

David Sharp

Andrew James

Nicole Michelle

Jessica Atkins

Paige-Louise Cochrane

Rosie Barber

Jessica Hart

Tabitha Debenham

Stacey O’Shea (understudies Catherine Hankinson, Stacey O’Shea)

BANd CREATIvE TEAM

Trinity College London ScholarTrinity Laban Award ScholarLeverhulme Arts Scholar

Scholarship Key

Musical Director Tony Castro

Violin 1 Rosie JudgeIsabella FlemingViolin 2 Sophie-Anne Chaplin Iryna GlyebovaViola Yee Sin

Cello Meg BrookesReeds Tracy Manning Caitlin Jeffery Darryl Alan Noel-DavilaEmily Maloney Bethany MilesTrumpet Connor Smither Sarah Owens Benjamin WhitcherTrombone Siddhartha Lethbridge Kiran Chatterjee Ross Lumbard

Guitar Aaron Horlock

Bass Hamish Nockles-Moore

Percussion Rhys DaviesKeysLawrence Michalowski

Director Karen RabinowitzMusical Director Tony CastroChoreographer Julie ArmstrongLighting Designer Jake WiltshireSet and Costume Designer Ian TeagueCostume Supervisor Cristiano CasimiroSound Design Paul GavinSound 2 Ella MontgomeryProduction LX Ant DoranProduction Manager Dennis CharlesStage Manager Sarah Rhodes CanningsDeputy Stage Manager Shannon Gibson DurrAssistant Director Stacey O’SheaDialect Coach Gemma Maddock Dance Captains Daisy DeanJessica Hart

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BIoGRAPHIES

KAREN RABINowITz dIReCTORDirecting credits include: Hansel & Gretel (Stratford East), Goodbye Barcelona (Arcola), Love’s Labours Lost (Suffolk Chamber Opera), Unburied Treasures (Rosemary Branch), Nostalgia Brand Chewing Gum (Pentameters), Ain’t We Got Fun? (Lyric Studio), Safety in Numbers and It’s All in the Stars (Molecule Theatre), Alice Through the Looking Glass (Dundee Rep), Twelfth Night and Hamlet (Waterville, Maine), revues for the Edinburgh Fringe and Covent Garden Festival.

As choreographer/movement director: The Way of the World, and dances for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (National Theatre), La Traviata and Masquerade, (Opera North), Eugene Onegin, (Scottish Opera), The Wizard of Oz (Opera House, Zurich), Jesus Christ, Superstar (York Theatre Royal), The Innocent Mistress (Derby Playhouse), Dead White Males (Nuffield Southampton), The Last Yankee (Mercury Colchester) Metamorphosis, The Wind in the Willows (Everyman, Cheltenham).

From 1995 – 2014 she was leader for the Musical Theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music, where her musical productions included Follies, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, City of Angels, Nine, Little Me, Sweet Charity, The Pajama Game, Happy End, The 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.

ToNy CASTRo muSICAl dIReCTORMusical director/supervisor credits include: City of Angels (Royal Academy of Music), Phantom of the Opera (Cameron Mackintosh/West End), Miss Saigon (Cameron Mackintosh / West End), The Iron Man (Young Vic /Pete Townshend), Moll Flanders (Lyric Hammersmith), Side by Side by Sondheim (Tour of Far), Dick Wittington (E&B /Birmingham).

Piano/keyboard credits include: Les Miserables (Cameron Mackintosh / West End), Wonderful Town (Bill Kenwright / West End), Snoopy (West End, Cheltenham), The Second Mrs Tanqueray (RNT on tour), Amadeus (RNT/West End), Wild Honey (RNT), Don Juan (RNT), Toad of Toad Hall (Bill Kenwright/Mermaid), Street Scene (ENO), Waste (West End), Chess (Churchill Theatre).

Tony Castro has had a long and successful career as a freelance conductor, musical director, keyboard player, vocal coach, composer and educator. He ran Higher Education performing arts degrees and departments at Central School of Speech and Drama, and Rose Bruford College, was Principal of the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and Director of Music at The BRIT School.

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JULIE ARMSTRoNG CHOReOGRAPHeRChoreography credits include: Little Me, The Pajama Game, Follies, Sweet Charity, Company, Nine, Into The Woods, The Wiz, A Little Night Music, City Of Angels, A Chorus Line (Royal Academy of Music), Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Stratford), UK premiere of Naked Boys Singing, (Madam Jo Jo’s), Stones in his Pockets (Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre), The Swingle Singers Album Concert (Bloomsbury Theatre), Ash (Arcola Theatre), Elton John Concert (Royal Albert Hall), Doctors (BBC), Witloof Bay (Eurovision song contest), Investiture of Stephen Sondheim’s London Concert (Royal Academy of Music).

Theatre credits include: Annie, Stepping Out, Evita, Billy Elliot, The Snow Queen, Jolson, Chicago, Beauty and the Beast, Merrily We Roll Along, Scrooge, Magic of the Musicals, The Cheeky Chappie, Just So, Follies, West Side Story, Godspell, Spring and Port Wine, Of Mice and Men.

TV credits: Close and True, BAFTA nominated Hero of the Hour, Chucklevision, Crimewatch, Geordie Runs for Gold, The Two Ronnie’s, Laurence Olivier Awards, Pebble Mill, Des O’Connor Show, The Royal Variety Performance, Red Mountain coffee, Dog Eat Dog, Applied Learning.

Radio/Recording credits: Merrily We Roll Along, Jolson, Just So, Scrooge.

JAKE wILTSHIRE lIGHTING deSIGNeRRecent lighting credits include: Le nozze di Figaro (Turku Opera), Rigoletto (Iford Arts Festival), Il Pastor Fido (The London Handel Society and RCMIOS), Don Giovanni (Opera Faber), Ariodante, Cendrillon, The Lighthouse, Eugene Onegin, Die Dreigroschenoper, Hansel und Gretel, The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring, Cosi Fan Tutte and many other productions for Royal Academy Opera, Carmen (ENO Baylis), The Snow Maiden, Macbeth and Acante et Cephise (UCO Opera), Don Giovanni (Amersham Festival of Music).

As an Associate lighting designer Jake has recently lit the US premiere of Peter Maxwell Davis and David Pountney’s Kommilitonen! at the Lincoln Center. Jake has also lit for theatre, independent films and Perrier Award winning comedy productions and in 2009 he was made an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

IAN TEAGUE SeT ANd COSTume deSIGNeRIan Teague has designed over 120 productions. Best known for small scale touring, TIE and young people’s theatre, Ian has also designed main house productions, community plays and site specific work. He is also a lecturer and workshop facilitator.

His designs for small cast productions of Shakespeare formed part of the British Golden Triga winning entry at the Prague Quadrennial 2003.

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ACKNowLEdGEMENTS

PatronHRH The Duke of Kent KG

ChairmanLord Lipsey

PrincipalProfessor Anthony Bowne

Director of MusicDr Claire Mera-Nelson

Assistant Director of Music and Head of PerformanceHavilland Willshire

Programme Leader, Musical Theatre PerformanceVictoria Stretton

Music Manager and Head of Music PlanningSonali Banerjee

Assistant Music ManagerSara Daintree

Orchestra and Ensembles ManagerPhilip Knight

Performance Operations ManagerMarianne Chapman

Performance Operations CoordinatorLaura Kitson

Department CoordinatorGemma Chance

Chief Operating OfficerAlison Darren

Events and Hires ManagerVanessa Dalton

Front of House ManagerVicky Harrison

Marketing and Sales ManagerDavid Reynolds

Head of Technical ServicesAndy Sellar

TechniciansWinston GilbertCatrin Powell

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