Monday, May 26, 2014

You want to know more about Damn Yankees?  Well let us tell you!


Damn Yankees is a musical comedy based on a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant; a modern retelling of the Faust legend set in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. The musical is based on Wallop's novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. 

Musical numbers include:
Six Months Out Of Every Year—Meg Boyd & Joe Boyd
Goodbye Old Girl—Joe Boyd and Joe Hardy
Heart—Van Buren, Smokey, Rocky
Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo. -- Gloria Thorpe, Senators
A Little Brains, a Little Talent—Lola
A Man Doesn't Know—Joe Hardy & Meg Boyd
Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets-- Lola
Those Were the Good Old Days—Applegate
Two Lost Souls—Lola and Joe Hardy 
A Man Doesn't Know (Reprise) -- Meg Boyd and Joe Boyd

Characters
Joe Boyd — A middle-aged, overweight married man who is in love with baseball, especially the Senators [the "older" Joe Hardy]
Joe Hardy — The 22-year-old, home run hitting alter ego of Joe Boyd
Lola — The Devil's seductress assistant
Mr. Applegate — The Devil in disguise as a slick salesman
Meg Boyd — Joe's loyal wife
Van Buren — The hard working manager of the Washington Senators with great heart but no luck
Gloria Thorpe — A probing reporter
Rocky — A baseball player for the Washington Senators
Smokey — A "dim bulb" catcher for the Washington Senators
Sister — Meg's sister
Mr. Welch - The owner of the Senators
Others: The Commissioner, additional reporters, waiter

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