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...strike over wages seem the next thing to a strawberry festival, while the head of the business and the head of the union are not so much contrasted bosses as brother oafs. Since in musicomedy the course of true love never can run smooth, in this one, Management (John Raitt) Meets Labor (Janis Paige), Management Fires Labor, then, with a little more dexterous management, rehires and weds her. En route there are small blobs and faint glimmers of satire, the usual doings at shop and picnic grounds, and some wackily unusual ones in a chop-suey joint...
...that reason, it is surprising that The Pajama Game has a substantial plot. John Raitt plays the superintendent of a Sleeptite factory who is in love with a labor agitator, played, whenever possible in black lingerie, by Miss Paige. Their romance is hindered, though not drastically, by a strike of the workers for a 7 1/2 cents wage increase. All ends happily, however, in a burst of song and gaudy pajamas...
...Since Raitt's voice is forceful and pleasant and Miss Paige's acting is the same, they make a good team. But, on the show's best ballad, "Hey, There," there is a more unique coupling. Raitt booms the tune into a dictaphone, allowing one of those duets with himself which now pervade popular music. This technique is not new to composers Adler and Ross who have had more experience in Tin Pan Alley than on Broadway. Their songs, including "I'm Not At All In Love," "Her Is," and "I Love You More," will probably do double duty both...
...just closed the Broadway run of Kind Sir, cropped her hair again to sing her best-known South Pacific songs-I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, Some Enchanted Evening (with Ezio Pinza), and I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. John Raitt and Jan Clayton who starred in the original Broadway show, did a love scene from Carousel. There were songs from Me and Juliet (Tony Martin and Rosemary Clooney), from The King and I (Yul Brenner and Patricia Morison), Allegro (Bill Hayes and Janice Rule), and Oklahoma! (Gordon MacRae and Florence Henderson...
...Roberta Peters as the imprisoned Princess was so appealing visually and vocally that it was hard to believe she had raced to the TV studio straight from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, where she had sung the young shepherd role that evening in Tannhäuser. Baritone John . Raitt confidently managed the always difficult job of making a masculine hero of Prince Charming, and top honors in the superb cast went to Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the wonder-working Golux who came by his magical power because he was the "son of a witch." There was also dimly...