Thursday, May 21, 2015

Damn Yankees at Great Plains Theatre

Those Damn Yankees are going to be at Great Plains Theatre in Abilene, Kansas

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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