Damn Yankees
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Damn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend[1] set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. It is based on Wallop's 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
Damn Yankees | |
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Music | Richard Adler & Jerry Ross |
Lyrics | Richard Adler & Jerry Ross |
Book | George Abbott Douglass Wallop |
Basis | The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop |
Productions | 1955 Broadway 1957 West End 1958 film 1967 U.S. television 1994 Broadway revival 1997 West End revival 2008 Encores! Summer Stars 2017 Off-Broadway |
Awards | Tony Award for Best Musical |
The show ran for 1,019 performances in its original Broadway production. Adler and Ross's success with it and The Pajama Game seemed to point to a bright future for them, but Ross suddenly died of chronic bronchiectasis at age 29, several months after Damn Yankees opened.