Elaine Pritchard, of HoldTheFrontPage, is spending this week in her pajamas.

But much as she loves a lie-in, this isn’t an act of laziness.

It’s the lure of the theatre, dahh-ling!

Elaine is in the cast of the 1950s comedy musical The Pajama Game, being performed by the New Era Light Opera Company at the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent.

The show opened last night (Tuesday June 13), and runs until Saturday.

A stage hit in America and Britain, it was also made into a film starring Doris Day.

Elaine (38) is in the chorus as a pajama factory machinist called “Doris” – but there any similarity ends.

Much as she is enjoying her return to the amateur stage – after an absence of some 18 years – she is not so pleased to be missing a week of Euro 2000.

She’ll be skipping the after-show party on the last night and hurtling home hoping to watch the England-Germany game “as-live” which husband Bill, who works on the Burton Mail, has promised to record.

“He says he won’t watch it – but I’m sure he will. I just hope I can get from the theatre to home without finding out what’s happened,” said Elaine.

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