Those Damn Yankees are going to be at Great Plains Theatre in Abilene, Kansas
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| Opening Night Friday, June 12 at 7:30 pm! |
Our 2015 Season kicks off on Friday, June 12 with the classic 1950s musical Damn Yankees!
Baseball fan Joe Boyd makes a deal with the devil, aka
Mr. Applegate, for a chance to help his favorite team win the pennant
against the NY Yankees in this classic 1950s musical comedy. Featuring
the songs (You Gotta Have) Heart, Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets, and
Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO, this musical is a sure-fire win! Rated
PG
Damn Yankees is based on Douglass Wallop’s novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
The novel is a modern retelling of the Faust legend, where a man
exchanges his soul to the devil in exchange for extraordinary powers.
Wallop chose to take the classic story and set it in Washington, D.C.
during the time when the New York Yankees were dominating Major League
Baseball.
Composer/lyricist team Richard Adler & Jerry Ross,
fresh from their success of their first Broadway musical, The Pajama
Game, took a large risk in writing a musical based on a sport. They
brought on Wallop to work on the book, and partnered him with renowned
Broadway director and playwright George Abbott.
Click link to our website below and read about a couple of the actors who will be coming to GPT for Damn Yankees!
Click Here to View Actor Profiles
Join us before the show on Opening Night at 6:00 pm on the east lawn of Abilene High School for hot dogs, potato salad, nachos, peanuts and even cracker jacks! Donations appreciated - see you there!
Thank you to our
2015 Season Underwriter:
ASTRA BANK
Thank you to our
2015 Season Corporate Sponsors:
First Bank Kansas
Holm Automotive, Inc.
Pinnacle Bank
&
Brierton Engineering, Inc.
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