PAJAMAS!!!

the pajama game was a very interesting story with a fun beat to it. It was not as symbolic or deeply thought out as judas or a few other musicals people want the school to do, but it was a love story written about 50 years ago with entertainment in mind. the play focused around the cold war era in the 1950's and it did have undercurrents of the problems of gender inequality and the cold war itself, yet that is not the focus of the story. the real idea of the story had more focus on love and the idea that in a relationship, just like salary negotiations, need compromise to work, as well as understanding. at least that is how i interpreted it. the stage design was very well done, capturing the colours and the vibrant feel of the time and transposing it into a factory setting . things like the office and bed room looked , for me, like they were actually in the 1950's with the themes and colours used, and the addition of plants gave it a real feel to it.the physical design of the stage and scene set up was very good, they looked organised and set in place stylistically, however as an actor on stage pushing a rather large basket around, it was annoying when the set up was so crowded i could not get my basket through behind the first row of girls.

i cant really comment on the acting since i was not in the audience but backstage, but from what i saw in group scene while on stage was that people really reacted off of each other and gave it plenty of gusto in keeping the energy of the play up. from what could tell was that the mic and and sound of the play went well overall with few glitches, and i trust that what ever mic glitches did happen, the actors used their projection to compensate, i hope. the musical went very well, it was highly successful with good songs.