The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 24, 1954

The Pajama Game (music & lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross; book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell) wound up the season with as exuberant high spirits as New Year's Eve winds up the year. So high are the show's jinks, in fact, that they almost render unimportant the primitiveness of its jesting; and so engaging are a number of its people that it doesn't too much matter what they do. As staged by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, The Pajama Game is a smash-hit mixture of racehorse and explosive; not in a long time has any musical so merely...

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