Please welcome one of the stars of the revival of "The Pajama Game," Michael McKean,
along with the star of the original production, Janis Paige.
[applause]
I'm so happy to be here, I can't stand it.
You can stand it. - Haha!
The original Tony Award-winning production of "The Pajama Game" opened on Broadway –
and I can't believe this – 52 years ago.
I don't know where the time went.
It was set in the Sleep-Tite pajama factory.
Jon Raitt played Sid, the new superintendent who falls in love with Babe, played by me.
But, their romance suffers a setback when the workers demand a 7-and-a-half-cent hourly pay increase.
Five decades later, Babe and Sid still fall for each other,
the workers still want their money,
and the heart of the show endures.
In a performance from our third nominated musical revival,
here are Tony nominees Harry Connick, Jr., Kelli O'Hara, Megan Lawrence,
and the cast of "The Pajama Game."
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SID: What a woman! I'll tell ya. Sit down.
There once was a man who loved a woman
She was the one he slew the dragon for
They say that nobody ever loved as much as he-ee
But me-ee, I love you more.
There once was a woman who loved a man
He was the one that she took poison for
They say that nobody ever loved as much as she-ee
But me-ee, I love you more.
My love's meteoric, it's merely historic
A whirlwind, a cyclone on wheels
It rocks my whole solar plexus, It's bigger than Texas
I just can't tell you how it feels
I only know there once was a man / woman
Who loved a woman / man
SID: She was the one he slew the dragon for BABE: He was the one that she took poison for
They say that nobody ever loved as much as he-ee / she-ee
But me-ee,
I love you more!
But me-ee-ee-ee-ee,
I love you more!
Just knock three times and whisper low
that you and I were sent by Joe,
then strike a match and you will know
you're in Hernando's Hideaway.
Olé!
I know a dark, secluded place, a place where no one knows your face.
A glass of wine, a fast embrace. It's called...
Hernando's Hideaway!
All you see are silhouettes
and all you hear are castanets.
You never, never know how late it gets, not at...
Hernando's Hideaway. Ole!
Just knock three times and whisper low
that you and I were sent by Joe,
then strike a match and you will know
you're in Hernando's Hideaway!
You're in Hernando's Hideaway!
Olé.
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