Damn Yankees

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With almost 160 titles in its repertoire, you might think that OLO has covered all the bases … but not quite! This season the company follows up its blockbuster 2018 hit The Pajama Game with the second (and sadly, last) Adler and Ross hit, Damn Yankees. When Ross passed away at age 29 soon after the show’s opening, it closed the book on a team that seemed destined to join the ranks of Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe. Middle-aged baseball fan Joe Boyd would give anything to see his hapless Senators beat the Yankees and claim the pennant. The Devil appears, accepts his offer, and in eventual exchange for his soul—but providing an escape clause—transforms Joe into a first-rate slugger. He joins the Senators and leads them to the season’s final two games, needing only a single win against the Yankees. To ensure that he “cashes in” on his deal, however, the Devil has called on his seductive “assistant” Lola to derail Joe from appearing in these games. The ebullient score features “Heart,” “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal Mo.,” “Whatever Lola Wants,” and “Those Were the Good Old Days.”