The Pajama Game confirms West End transfer starring Joanna Riding & Michael Xavier

It has been confirmed that Chichester Festival Theatre's production of The Pajama Game, directed by Richard Eyre, will transfer to the West End.

The production will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 13th May 2014 (previews from 1st May) for a limited season until 13th September 2014.

The double Olivier Award winning Joanna Riding (pictured right) will reprise her role as Babe Williams and is joined by Michael Xavier who plays the handsome superintendent, Sid Sorokin (Hadley Fraser played the part during the Chichester run). Click here to meet Joanna and Michael.

Richard Eyre said "The Pajama Game was the first musical I ever heard - on an album belonging to my sister when I was 14. I had never seen it until I directed it at Chichester. It was a long wait to discover what an entrancing, joyful, tuneful and sharp show it is."

In 1950s America, love is in the air at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory as handsome new Superintendent Sid Sorokin (Michael Xavier) falls head-over-heels for firebrand Union rep Babe Williams (Joanna Riding). Sparks fly when the employees are refused a seven-and-a-half cents raise, leaving Sid and Babe deliciously at odds as the temperature rises. . . Will love, eventually, conquer all?

The Chichester Festival Theatre production of The Pajama Game is produced in the West End by Joseph Smith and John Brant, Old Vic Productions, Gavin Kalin, Neil Franklin and Stephen McGill.

Further casting to be announced.

Read West End Frame's interviews with Michael Xavier from April 2013 and October 2012.

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