pajama games

Question 1

steam heat aural setting

Answer 1

boynk sounds
shuffel steps - very vaudville
syncopated clapping
cluck sounds
sssss sounds - could be steam from the factory or the steamy relationship inside
screams
ding of a bell

Question 2

motif for sss noises

Answer 2

trio takes small steps towards stage left facing the audience making a cluck cluck noise and they push the hat off the top of their heads as they make a sssss sounds they repeat this three times - letting out the steam

Question 3

motif for music visualisation

Answer 3

” nothing i got will take the place of you holding me tight “
facing stage right they jump upstage and wrap their arms around their bodies

Question 4

When was the film and broadway version and who were they directed by

Answer 4

Broadway - 1954 George Abbott and Jerome robins
Film - 1957 George Abbott and Stanley Donan

Question 5

What is the plot

Answer 5

Union strikes at the pajama factory because the superintendent Sid refused to give the workers a pay rise of 7 1/2 cent
Meanwhile Sid and the union rep babe fall in love even though they are disputing each other
The section steam heat is a release for the workers as they are just putting on a show

Question 6

Why is steam heat important to fosses career

Answer 6

It was his first fully choreographed show and the movement stemed from kiss me Kate there were concerns his movement would be too provocative so Jerome robins was on stand by

Question 7

Vaudeville as an influence

Answer 7

Clicks
Rolled shoulders
Vaudeville style stage
Linear pathways
Sounds effects

Question 8

Charlie Chaplin as an influence

Answer 8

Slap stick - Pratt falls
Use of costume

Question 9

Influences

Answer 9

Working class people
American politics
Personal life and training - his own issues influenced his dance style with inverted knees etc
Colaberation was abbots and robins
Jack Cole because he is the father of American jazz

Question 10

Style

Answer 10

Rhythmical bounces
Staccato shuffles
Broken wrists
Splayed hands
Hunched shoulders
Mime
Angular positions

Question 11

Impact

Answer 11

Establishes fosses unique style which contributed to the development of American jazz as it moved away from the previously very technical jazz but had not yet become fosses highly sexualised movement

Enabled fosse to collaborate on damn yankees with Abbott in 1955 although he wasn’t credited

Question 12

What is the pajama game based on

Answer 12

The 1953 book 71/2 cent by Richard bissell