"High School Musical," Nantucket-style
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Kadeem McCarthy and Abergavenny Whiteford rehearse a scene from "The Pajama Game," a Nantucket High School production which opens this weekend in the Mary P. Walker Auditorium under the direction of Laura Gallagher Byrne.
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By Joshua B. Gray
I&M Staff Writer
Pajamas will be in fashion this weekend at Nantucket High School’s Mary P. Walker Auditorium, and all are invited, but please, wear your clothes.
Only a select few will be in their bed-clothes, and they will all be on stage in the annual NHS musical, “The Pajama Game,” running Friday through Sunday.
Adapted from the book “7-1/2 Cents” by Richard Bissell, the play centers around the comedic and musical antics of a range of characters at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory who are on the verge of going on strike.
A love story staged against the backdrop of office politics and union negotiations, “The Pajama Game” was brought to Broadway by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins in 1954, to the silver screen in 1957, and revived for the stage in 2006 in a production starring Harry Connick Jr. The Nantucket High School production, under the direction of Laura Gallagher Byrne, a veteran of island community theater, will stay true to the original 1950s stage version.
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