Pajama Game Auditions

AUDITION DATES MARCH 31, 4 - 6 pm at NEYT
* Sign up (via e-mail michelle@neyt.org or phone Michelle at 802-246-6398 ext. 101)

Please prepare 16 bars of a ballad song and 16 bars of an up tempo "belt" type song from the musical theatre repertoire.  Remember to act while singing!  And bring your sheet music with you. Dress in comfortable clothing as there will be a short sequence of dance steps for everyone to learn together. (Pajama Game has lots of dancing and lots of big chorus dance numbers.)  We will ask you to read short scenes from the play with other actors - you may choose which character(s) you want to read for. Reading selections will be copied and available in the office for you to take home to review and study before the audition date. Auditions will run from 4:00 to 6:00 and we expect everyone to come at the start and stay until the end as we will be doing some call backs right then and there and want to mix and match actors within various scenes.

The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell, featuring a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cent raise are going unheeded. In the midst of this ordeal, love blossoms between Babe, the grievance committee head, and Sid, the new factory superintendent.

A perennial audience favorite, the original Broadway production of Pajama Game opened on May 13, 1954 and ran for 1,063 performances. It was revived in 1973, and again in 2006 by The Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway. The original production won a Tony for Best Musical, and the 2006 Broadway revival won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.