Musical Theatre Workshop participants will present their rendition of the Tony Award-winning musical “The Pajama Game” Saturday. “The Pajama Game” will be performed Saturday at 1 p.m. Tickets are $12 and may be purchased at the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts box office or online at wagonwheelcenter.org Wagon Wheel’s production is directed by Andy Robinson, Kira Lace Hawkins, Kristen Yasenchak and Alyssa Kay Thompson and showcases the talents of participants in the Musical Theatre Workshop for grades 8 to 12. Workers at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory, pressing for a 7-1/2-cent raise, are moving closer to a strike. Add a budding romance between the new factory superintendent, Sid Sorokin, and head of the grievance committee, Babe Williams, and things are bound to get complicated, according to a provided press release from the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts. “The Pajama Game” – with a book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross – is based on the novel “7-1/2 Cents” by Bissell. According to the press release, this classic example of musical comedy premiered on Broadway in 1954.
