Michael McKean Appears on 'Tony Danza Show,' April 13

The Pajama Game, which stars Connick Jr. (composer/lyricist of Thou Shalt Not, South Pacific movie with Glenn Close) as Sid, O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza, Dracula) as Babe and McKean  as Hines, also features Megan Lawrence (Urinetown, Les Miserables) as Gladys, Joyce Chittick (Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town) as Mae, Peter Benson (Wonderful Town, Little Me) as Prez, Michael McCormick (Gypsy, Marie Christine) as Pop and Ganzenlicher, Richard Poe (Fiddler on the Roof, 1776), and Roz Ryan (One Mo' Time, Chicago) as Mabel. 

The Roundabout Theatre Company is producing the show with commercial producers, Jeffrey Richards, Scott Landis and James Fuld. Marshall (Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me, Kate) is the director and choreographer.

Previously, McKean starred as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He has also been seen on Broadway in Accomplice, as well as in the Actors' Fund benefit concert of Hair and off-Broadway in A Second-Hand Memory. Known for his longtime association with writer/director Christopher Guest, his many film and TV credits include A Mighty Wind, My First Mister, Best in Show, Coneheads, This is Spinal Tap, "Tracey Takes On," "Saturday Night Live," and "Laverne and Shirley."  

The Pajama Game opened at the St. James Theatre on May 13th, 1954 to run for 1,063 performances; the show won Tonys for Best Musical, for Bob Fosse's choreography and for Carol Haney as Best Featured Actress in a Musical (understudy Shirley MacLaine would become a star by going on for her one night). The show, which was directed by Abbott and Jerome Robbins, features such hits in its score as "Hernando's Hideaway," "Steam Heat," "There Once Was a Man," and "Hey There." The Pajama Game became a 1957 film starring Doris Day and was revived once before in 1973.