Sweet dreams: 60 years of The Pajama Game – in pictures

The Pajama Game opened on Broadway on 13 May, 1954, directed by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Bob Fosse. John Raitt and Janis Paige starred as Sid Sorokin and Catherine 'Babe' Williams, union-crossed lovers at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory Photograph: Reg Warhurst/Associated News/REX/Rex Features

Winning the Tony awards for Best Musical, Best Actress and Best Choreography, the show ran for 1,063 performances on Broadway before taking a leap over to London. Here is the cast in dress rehearsals for the West End opening at the Coliseum in 1955 Photograph: Roger Wood/Getty Images

Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr and John Raitt reprised their Broadway roles in the 1957 film of The Pajama Game, which featured all but one of the original leads ... Photograph: Kobal

Hollywood sweetheart Doris Day showed her muscle, replacing Janis Paige as Babe on the big screen Photograph: Alamy

John Raitt and Doris Day sporting fetching his'n'hers pyjamas in a film still Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features

A first US revival, in 1973, closed early. The slicker 2006 production starred Kelli O'Hara and Harry Connick Jr as Babe and Sid, the latter in his Broadway debut Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/WireImage

Richard Eyre's Chichester production earned a five-star review from the Guardian's Michael Billington in 2013 and now a limited West End run at the Shaftesbury theatre Photograph: Catherine Ashmore