Connick bound for Broadway

Harry Connick Jr., the crooning heartthrob and jazz stylist, will star next season in a Broadway revival of “The Pajama Game,” one of the musical theater’s biggest hits of the 1950s.

Connick will play the role originated in 1954 by John Raitt, according to Jeffrey Richards, a co-producer of the revival. The performer, best known these days for his role as Leo, the duplicitous husband on television’s “Will & Grace,” will begin rehearsals after Labor Day. The musical will open sometime in November, Richards said.