| Damn Yankees | |
|---|---|
 1955 original cast recording | |
| 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 |
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.
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.
- ^ Fitzsimmons, Lorna, ed. (2008). Lives of Faust: The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A Reader. New York: Walter De Gruyter. p. 12. ISBN 9783110973976. Retrieved 30 October 2018.