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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 .
Damn Yankees (retitled What Lola Wants in the United Kingdom) is a 1958 American musical sports romantic comedy film. It was directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Abbott, adapted from his and Douglass Wallop 's book of the 1955 musical of the same name with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, itself ...
Damn Yankees - Musical. Damn Yankees plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.
Not content with being a successful baseball player, Joe grows homesick and decides to rent a room at his own house. This infuriates Applegate, who absolutely distrusts domesticity and calls in his top home-wrecker, Lola, to seduce Joe with what she calls "the standard vampire treatment."
Play Trailer. It's a picture in a million! Starring that girl in a million, the red-headed darling of the Broadway show, Gwen Verdon! Overview. Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant. George Abbott. Director, Screenplay.
The musical play "Damn Yankees" opened at the 46th Street Theater in New York City on May 5, 1955, and ran for 1,019 performances. Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Jean Stapleton, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, James Komack, Rae Allen, and Robert Shafer reprise their roles in the movie.
