The Pajama Game - Steam Heat

[Jefgg]

I watched this once when I was really drunk.  It sounded like they were singing that they had VD. STDs are nothing to sing about.

[aznivx]

this is good!

[stormfet]

Gotta love those white socks.

[Ajherez]

Ah the days of REAL talents!

[marklbetya]

I love this number, but like "Whose got the Pain" in Damn Yankees, they just stick a pointless number in the middle of a musical so Fosse can choreograph something. Kind of silly.

[eottoe2001]

This is the first time I had seen this routine. It was really weird AND Bob Fosse was a genius.

[Southernburrito]

This is untrue for me. Sometimes I need the cold just to get warm.

[cynicsfaith]

I'm not a dancer or a performer, but I really want to learn this dance!

[LoveParis4eva]

what key is this in

[IvonGomezgirl]

Steam Heat almost got me in choir because someone heard me singing this in the locker room. I don't plan on singing in choir but I love this song to death.

[dinosaursarerawraful]

were doing a musical theater piece to this for out annual charity dance show (:

[imagineers0]

Wow, Michael Jackson of the 50s.

[LaurenSwifty13]

we're doing a dance to this in jazz :') <3

[Blahblahbox1]

Michael Jackson got his inspiration for the dance for Billie Jean from these guys, Michael loved musicals, and I love you Michael :)

[pippozg]

dude is thee OBC cast recording on itunes?

[SallyAugusta]

Brilliant! Carol died far too early. Fosse's choreography isn't for any average dancer to pull off.

[nooneuno9312]

Real men dance like this!!!! :)

[TheScriabin]

There never was such a forgettable movie with such incredible songs and dance numbers!!

[terrryc]

Absolutely wonderful..........what happened to this level of brilliance?

[thebearclawjones]

I was watching this and was kinda thinking well, this here is some stiff-backed nonsense....but i just could not stop.

i really wanted to see what weird moves and funny business they came up with next...

[babsiam1]

who is that actress?

[TheBartok9]

I think that's Fosse on the right.

[Juliaflo]

@TheBartok9 Actually, I think that is Peter Gennaro.

[carina621]

Love this so much. It's a pure classic with fosse inspired and i can see the quirkiness of the Nicholas brothers in here as well

[Ingeborg70]

FANTASTIC!!

[maggie2go]

I can see Michael Jackson was very much inspired by this,,,the moves, the white socks....Carol Haney also died young. She was 39.

[stalzz]

9 ppl are buttheads. This is awesome!

[MaestraMorte]

My school did this, and the girls who did it completely nailed it n_n I've had it stuck in my head all day o_O

[georgiared1]

golden age ... lyrics you can understand and dancing to blow you away ... i'm glad i saw this in person ... back in the 40's and 50's broadway was there for a few cents up high but worth it....robert g. with blue eyes my mother almost died. mb

[georgiared1]

golden age ... lyrics you can understand and dancing to blow you away ... i'm glad i saw this in person ... back in the 40's and 50's broadway was there for a few cents up high but worth it.... mb

[anairambs]

AMAZING!



[deadpoet7783]

Holy crap. That was amazing.

[pantherpatty]

classic :)

[jillysworld]

This is "timeless" I wonder if MJ got his look from this swag.

[franinconverse]

My friend Hannah used to dance this almost ever week at school. RIP Hannah<3

[SkyJamMusicVideos]

This movie is interesting for the fact that many of the players were just stage actors but in this film they were fantastic.

[onviant]

Easy to spot the Bob Fosse choreography.

[AlexandraKaye1]

I'm doing this dance in my musical theatre class!

[denouements]

this just totally brightened up my day :D

[Thesammi04]

Some friends and I are doing this dance in a show. We are really strugglig with the steps at 2:27 ! But its fun dancing it and the choreography is great! Fosse <3

[TwilightLove1230]

-_- i have to do this for drama

[puglvr123]

@TwilightLove1230 no way i have to also do you go to memorial middle school

[Spazzbert]

I didn't even know Bob Fosse did the Pyjama game, but as soon as I started playing this clip I was like "Oh, Fosse must have done the Pyjama game. Look at those hats."

[Dunkleosteus9]

I like the guy with the double fist pump at the end.

[djg3n]

I don't know why 8 people doesn't like this video. This is magic! This is awesome! This is real art! :)

[Waldosings]

This is real entertainment.

[PRR5406]

Shirley MacLaine tells a story about performing this on stage, in New York, and dropping her hat into the orchestra, then yelling audibly, "Oh, SHIT!"

[navyluvr08]

8 ppl need more steamed heat

[MEareCAT]

This was on Family Guy and lois sang it :)

[DonnieDog13]

@MEareCAT Thats where i first heard it

[TaylorMuzic]

3:43 hs me thinking Michael Jackson!!! i really do think he got inspriation from Fosse.

[animeballet]

wow this is defineately not what i had expected... we are doing this for a theatre class im taking... i give it two thumbs up!

[TaylorMuzic]

i saw some MJ moves in there maybe this is where Mj went for inspiration for his moves. and plus i saw their pants...

[lmdohan]

Great stuff! I was noticing that the "tapping and clapping" part of the dance was

influenced by Fred Astaire's "Bojangles of Harlem" routine 20 years earlier, but the

rest of it is pure Fosse.

[biscuit2boy]

There is another popular version of this that includes a large cast. Where was that version from? They play it at video bars often. I thought it was the original Broadway version. Can anyone tell me.

[Annagirl330]

I had to do a dance to this in my Broadway dance class this morning...... Its a little cheesy but, I guess all Broadway stuff is then I guess :/

[weezash]

@Annagirl330 I'm confused by this statement. How is it cheesier than other kinds of dancing?

[togalogs]

This is the sort of dancing which heavily influenced Michael Jackson .

[helloo2714]

i was just cast as gladys hotchkiss in the pajama game!

[YouAreSpotOnWithThat]

Few countries in the world have Steam Energy Plants.

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In the United States there are neighborhood steam plants, where energy is sent to energy-customers, consumers who use it to do run business with or run ventilation systems.

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Steam coming from vents in the streets also occurs.

cheers.

from,

del-boy

[scotpens]

@YouAreSpotOnWithThat In the 1950s, when this musical was first performed, many older buildings had steam boilers in the basement. The steam was piped to radiators throughout the building to provide heat. When my mother was a little girl in the Bronx in the 1930s, she was often awakened early in the morning by the sound of coal from the delivery truck going down the chute to the boiler.

[etbella3]

@scotpens Steam heat means our nasal passages and skin do not get dried out, thereby preventing flu and other serious illnesses up to and including death.

[etbella3]

@scotpens Steam heat means our nasal passages and skin do not get dried out, thereby preventing flu and other serious illnesses up to and including death.

[YouAreSpotOnWithThat]

@scotpens One person has been killed when a steam pipe exploded underneath a street in central New York. Millions of pounds of steam are pumped beneath the streets of New York to help heat and cool thousands of buildings. Dear Scot., Thank you for your commnent; the above refers to steam different from the type you say, which is delivered as coal. Would both delivery types, be as noisy in the pipes, or is the street steam system more noisy; without burner. . . Cheers from del-boy.

[director2josh]

This vid reminds me of my pop! I used to watch this with him when i was little! RIP pop!

[notyouraveragething]

oooh i remember this!!!! i did this musical when i was 6 and this is the only song i totally remember. i love this.

[YouzTube99]

Haney was a marvel! She really made Fosse's choreography come to life!

And it's fascinating to see how Fosse simultaneously rejects Astaire's precision and creates his own.

[AstroKelsey]

This is my gymnastics floor music! ha

[Chimplockgrapehead]

oh my god this brings back memories i did a dance to this when i was younger classic

[matypaz]

I can't see any other permers .only this one

[genji275]

it was so fun doing this for dance concert :)

[dacraZydrinker2]

my dance group is dancing to this~!

[krazy4kris]

My youth theatre is doing this as a summer play and I might be in it and a bunch of girls did this dance in my dance show last spring

[gmar55]

Interesting how different these 3 dancers are, though overall they do synch up. The guy on the (audience's) right is the best, every movement and nuance is there - I'd think it was Fosse himself. Would like to know who this cat is!

[mashtones]

@gmar55 The two male dancers with Carol Haney are the late Buzz Miller (who also was in the Broadway cast with Haney) and Kenneth or Ken LeRoy who took the place of the stage production's Peter Gennaro for the film. LeRoy was in the original stage versions of Oklahoma, West Side Story,and Damn Yankees among others and is I believe the dancer to the right. His sister is actress Gloria LeRoy who can be seen as the buxom wife of Archie's friend in "The Threat" episode of All In The Family (Youtube)

[gmar55]

@mashtones Thanks for the info!!! Makes you realize there are, and have been, so many extremely talented, hard working performers who never "make it". They do it for heart and soul and it always comes through regardless.

[titostacos]

@mashtones thanks for the info.  I was wondering who the other two dancers were.

[cynicsfaith]

that dance looks like a lot of fun

[seraquasho]

¿qué fué primero? ¿Esto o Michale Jackson?? Esta chidisimo!!!

[Crushstation]

@seraquasho This movie was made the year before Michael Jackson was born, but I agree with you the similarities are amazing.

[seraquasho]

@Crushstation yeah!! gracias por responder a mi duda!!!

[FoolyCooly1]

I'd rather watch this than Soulja Boy and Lil Wayne. 5 Stars.

[RaulBillieJean]

@FoolyCooly1 lol me too

[sheacourt7]

my school is doing this and they are tapping to it =]

[SummerOnTheBeach]

I know it would over-power the song, but I wish they were tapping. I would love to tap dance to this song. We sang it one year in choir too. Just an SSA version. Fun song.

[lotusflower2k9]

I danced this dance when i was about eight and have been in love with it ever since! xxx go fosse!! xxx

[ps3stewie]

Hey guys, if you can send me your vids of the pajama game, were doing it in my musical theater class, and want some ideas, thanks

[cpdgal112]

we're doing the pajama game at my school! my friend and i are the two "men" (we swung the genders) and our gladys is great! :)

[shortnproud781]

our highschool is doing the pajama game for our senior class play, and this and hernando's' hideaway are my two favorite.

lovelovelove

[Josiecats2006]

I love the dance to this.

My high school did this for a production in my 9th Grade year & I remember this was my favorite scene. Lolz.

[scottca075]

Sorry, all Fosse looks alike to me.

John Raitt was great though.

[judeorel]

brilliant choreographer. Bob Fosse, what a genius..

[xDancinnRulesx]

im doin this for a tap dance in my dance show!! we use loads of their choreography its so cool seeing them do it!! thanks :]

[ukgal260]

is the one in the middle the character gladys hotchkiss?????

[porghog]

Michael Jackson was inspired by this, huh?

[lannie89]

lmao i take arobic jazz at my school and we just started to learn this dance today!! its cool seeing them doing it!

[adlouxo]

just beautiful.

[hebneh]

Here's a little number that a bunch of amateur garment workers cooked up for an informal union show - umm...no, not really. It's a number that a bunch of professionals busted their asses choreographing and practicing and filming again and again. And it shows.

I remember a version of this by the Pointer Sisters in the 1970s that I really liked listening to.

[debranoelle]

Dead Susan,

DO u know that Fosse choreographed this? He did. He invented this isolation style and his trademark was props and isolations. Fosse was also a vaudeville dancer, along the line of the charleston dance etc. The riff brothers! Look up some vaudeville stuff on this hunny........

[joelarama]

Bob fosse!\Are they all dead I know there names but I lost my head.

[YouAreSpotOnWithThat]

@joelarama There is no great shame in being dead, already !

Cheers.

from,

del-boy

[gpedraza93]

lol hilarious, im performing this on tuesday, its tiotally differentfrom this tho lol

[Juliaflo]

On stage or on screen, Carol Haney OWNED this number.

[fmgsampaloc]

Even down to the white shoe leggings!

[lasktguy]

Love the scream near the end of the song.

[lexcordis]

You don't think Bob Fosse invented these moves, do you? There is nothing new under the sun. It's all about what you do with what's there. Jackson knew all of dance history. When he was influenced by a white dancer, he said so. Astaire, Kelly.  Thank God Jackson came and saved us from songs like this.

[SusanDRobinson]

Before Michael's dance moves, before Fosse's choreography, was the Vaudeville numbers JUST LIKE THIS on the black vaudeville circuit. He lifted it very close to what they were doing. This is regurgitated from those times.

[annekepoort]

Bob Fosse is a great

[lotusflower2k9]

choreographer? :) xxx

[annekepoort]

Bob Fosse

[lotusflower2k9]

i know but you just stopped on 'great'- he's a great what? xxx

[kevinlilysarah]

steeeamm heat!

[per4mnc100]

like wolfsuck said, this is how i found out about this. i wanted to hear the original. and i was just blown away by the entire sequence. my mom used to watch stuff like this all the time. i love seeing the classics. she would appreciate this. and it's true. this is a blueprint for future michael jackson dance numbers.

[wasittoyou]

This is where Michael Jackson's "style" began. A year before he was born.

Bob Fosse was the original.

[64098]

Barbara Nichols is the blonde in the beginning of the video. Carol Haney's film legacy is way too brief. This movie is one of my favorites, I have it on a DVD.

[gunnar0]

This inspired Michael Jackson for sure. it's unbeatable.

[WithLove16ABT]

is that marylin monroe @the beginning in the crowd????

[clumsy0ninja]

No, it's not...

[mhss0001]

i wish that whenever i experience a union strike, they have something like this to get us rallied up!

[Tigerlily21]

Okay look at 2:29 that's where Michael Jackson stole the moonwalk! Michael totally ripped off a lot of Bob Fosse's dances!

[jb4571]

yeAH YOU R RIGHT

[annekepoort]

You're right. That's funny to see. And also the black shoes with white socks.

Bob Fosse is a great choreographer !! Very remarkable style of dance !

[SFSD16]

this was the first musical i ever saw its AWESOME

[sourboydrummer]

fosse is incredible

[MORANDANCE]

Me encanta esta coreografia es espectacular, Bob Fosse el Mejor. y la interpretación increible.

[scotpens]

This is the seminal dance number that defined the Fosse style for all time. All his trademarks are present here: the askew, angular poses; the slouched posture; the shuffling feet; the tight, inward-directed arm movements; and hats, hats and hats!

[nInAg114]

@scotpens Catch a young Bob Fosse in Kiss Me Kate--great stuff!

[topriser]

@scotpens Yes. And for historians -- For this number, Fosse was inspired by an old vaudeville performer named JOE FRISCO. Frisco's act had trademark stuff -- a well fitted suit, white sock (so you'd look at his feet), a derby and a cigar. As a child, Fosse and his dance partner Charles Grass were schooled all about Frisco from their mentor and first manager (they had a tap act as kids in Chicago) Fredric Weaver. There is a rare clip on Youtube is you search for JOE FRISCO

[SuperSundance7]

@scotpens I agree. If you want to see the master himself check out Damn Yankees "Who's Got the Pain". He performs with then wife Gwen Verdon. Perfection. We are lucky to have these performaces on film.

[IngaMarr]

Hey, that's what musicals are about: a total suspension of belief that ordinary mortals are possessed of this incredible talent to sing and dance...they foster our own dreams of breaking out into song and dance. Are we to disbelieve Nelly Forbush when she sings of canary yellow skies or Maria when she rhymes internally with Cole Porterish cocktail élan in "I Feel Pretty". Since they coulda been they woulda been - and that's show biz, folks.

[bluebettle]

One thing I find to be funny about this scene is the utter suspense of belief that you need to give in order to believe that a couple of down-on-their luck union workers and a secretary are able to perfectly break out into a Fosse-choreographed routine, seemingly with only a couple of day's notice.

I love it.

[scotpens]

That willing suspension of disbelief is an integral part of the musical experience, and perhaps one of the reasons why musical films aren't very popular with today's youth. In real life, people don't burst out into song and dance in the middle of a conversation. But then, how realistic are today's action flicks with their impossible, physics-defying stunts and CGI effects?

[bluebettle]

This number is special compared to other musical numbers, even within this musical because it is diegetic to the film.

Other numbers, the audience just clicks their brain off and assumes that the number really isn't happening in the reality of the universe, but for Steam Heat the characters are actually dancing in the movie's reality.

[scotpens]

That's true, as it is of "Who's Got the Pain" in "Damn Yankees," and all the musical numbers in the movie version of "Cabaret." Fosse wanted all the singing and dancing in that film to take place within the reality of the story, so all the songs but one are performed on the Kit Kat Klub stage, with "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" being sung by a group of Hitler Youth in a public park. It's still a bone-chilling number that portends the Nazi horrors to come.

[klausweasley]

When is Beyonce gonna rip this number off?

[schoolgyrl6]

I know right, she consistantly confuses INSPIRATION with INNOVATION! She brings nothing new to the table. Nothing i want to c anyways.

[mrsphoenix85]

Carol Haney is INCREDIBLE. Freakin' you GO girl!

[mhss0001]

the guys in this are fantastic.

[dramaqueen884]

God love Bob Fosse.

[try2figure]

they told me to shove in more coal in the boiler ;)

[schoolgyrl6]

i know, that's my fav part of the whole song!

[Tigerlily21]

that part is the shit! So cool! The way they were just gliding with their feet was just incredible! Bob Fosse you were a genius!

[scotpens]

It's "shovel" more coal, actually. They used to use it to heat buildings, you know! Probably still do in some parts of the world.

[try2figure]

thanks for correcting.

[ayzax14]

brilliant. fosse was a genius.

[gmar55]

This number is incredible - a true CLASSIC!

[Wolfsuck]

HAHA this is on family guy! lois sung this

[mhss0001]

do you know which episode it was? or if its on youtube?

[jeanbeanfosho]

ahhh love the beginning

[dancinngrrll14]

i just got assigned this role in my school muscial

!! :]

[jackturnpike]

Having set this number- be very careful about warming up your knees, those odd twists and slides can really mess you up!

[sailorflare]

UNF I love this clip <33333333333333 I love Carol Haney, Bob Fosse, and this musical.

[Servifam]

Even an ignorant like me when it comes down to technical aspects, is able to easily recognize the true genious behind such a brilliant performance. One can imagine the hours of rehearsal, the passion, the search for perfection. Thanks for posting it.

[Tigerlily21]

Another example of why Bob Fosse was a genius. Carol Haney is awesome here, in drag, and even making her body language very masculine throughout the dance. My favorite part is the move they do between 2:28 and 2:35

[gmar55]

Yes - totally awesome. I LOVE the moves between 2:28 and 2:35, not technically difficult but as effective as just about anything.

[BBKDW]

Number one Fosse piece of all time, I think. Great that we finally got an original clip from movie. Way cooler than the Fosse revival a few years back.

[IceRose9]

epic!

[CrazySingingNote]

the good old days

sigh

[butterscotch4919]

my school did this play and i was in this song!

[Lightsil]

Same....

[tommyrall3]

incomparable bob fosse,wonderful carol haney

[albertdiner]

At last. Been waiting for this clip. Fantastic

choreography by Bob Fosse (Cabaret, All that

Jazz, etc.). Thank you for uploading it.