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Pajama Game Recording Tops Billboard Cast Album Chart
By: BWW News Desk May. 22, 2006
Columbia Records' recently released "Harry On Broadway, Act I", a two CD collection including The Pajama Game cast album and music from Thou Shalt Not (performed by Harry Connick, Jr. and Kelli O'Hara), has debuted at #1 on the Billboard Cast Album chart.
In addition to the cast recording of The Pajama Game, the CD set (which was released in stores on May 9th) includes 11 songs from Thou Shalt Not,
which marked Connick Jr.'s debut as a Broadway composer/lyricist.
The Pajama Game was recently nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical (Connick, Jr.), Best Actress in a Musical (O'Hara) and Best Direction and Choreography of a Musical.
The
show is playing a limited run through June 11th, but audiences can pay
between between $250 and $2,500 to catch five added benefit
performances from June 13th through 17th. Funds from those performances
will benefit The
Actors' Fund of America, the New Orleans Habitat Musician's Village,
and the Roundabout's Education Program and Musical Theatre Fund. The show has also been announced to transfer, with a new cast, to another Broadway theatre in the fall.
For more information on The Pajama Game, visit www.roundabouttheatre.org.
