The College Light Opera Company saved its best production of the 2021 season for its last week, presenting the first-ever production of Georgia Stitt’s brilliant musical review, “The Danger Year.”
âThe Pajama Gameâ ran for more than a thousand performances on Broadway in the 1950s and this weekâs production by the College Light Opera Company at the Highfield Theatre shows why. The music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross turn a Midwestern, assembly-line garment factory into a vibrant showcase for a romance that thrives on humor, exuberance, surprise and stubborn persistence.
Teddy Ladley plays Sid Sorokin, the new factory superintendent whose good looks make him the magnet of attention for the ladies in the shop. Carlyn Jade Barenholtz is Mae, the unionâs Grievance Committee of one, who feigns romantic disinterest but her song âIâm Not at All in Love,â betrays her vulnerability. And Sidâs crooning into his Dictaphone, âHey There,â becomes a wistful dialogue when he accompanies himself on the recording. Before long Babe and Sid are shouting their feelings in a rollicking cowboy-style duet, âThere Once Was a Man.â�