On Stage: El Juego Pajama — the Language Game – Minnesota

“Abbott wrote the book for the 1955 musical, which featured music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. It tells of a strike at the pajama factory and a love story that emerges between the plant’s manager and the union representative. Valdez wondered how that concept would look if transferred to a garment factory populated by Latinos. Workers speak to each other in Spanish, managers speak English and the conversations between them are bilingual. Screens on each side of the stage will bear supertitles so that every production will look and sound the same — a deviation from Mixed Blood’s practice of offering Spanish-only nights.

“That flew in the face of our goal to have an audience that mirrors the on-stage aspirations,” Reuler said in an e-mail. “This allows bilingual and monolingual audiences to sit side by side.”"

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