Damn Yankees! News

You might not have noticed, but the old silver-domed, refurbished Casa Maana might just be the best place to see an old-fashioned musical in North Texas.

Here's a combination that doesn't come immediately to mind: Gwen Verdon and Walker, Texas Ranger .

Stage and screen veteran Richard Kind has replaced Tony-nominated actor Lou Diamond Phillips in the Casa Manana's upcoming staging of the Tony-winning musical Damn Yankees .

Newman springs eternal Over at the Henderson Theatre - the auditorium just off Newman Springs Road on the Christian Brothers Academy High School campus in Middletown - producer-director Mark Fleming and the ...

Stage and screen veteran Richard Kind has replaced Tony-nominated actor Lou Diamond Phillips in the Casa Manana's upcoming staging of the Tony-winning musical Damn Yankees .

The boys of summer came out swinging - and singing and dancing - in the past week with the July 5 start of previews and the July 10 opening of Damn Yankees , the 2008 entry of the Encores! Summer Stars program ...

THE REMARKABLE "Encores!" summer series hits a triple home run with its stunning casting of the season's opener "Damn Yankees." What a winner it is.

The ending of "Sweet Charity" -- the Cy Coleman-Do rothy Fields musical now at Actors' NET of Bucks County in Morrisville, Pa., through July 27 -- provides an interesting twist on the usual romantic fairy tale ...

Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski are having a devilish time. Click pic for photo gallery of 'Damn Yankee' productions through the years.

Last year, for its first three-week summer season, the City Center Encores! series gave us Patti LuPone and 'Gypsy' - a production that, to my mind, was even better there than when it broadened in its transfer ...

The City Center Encores! Summer Stars production of Damn Yankees - starring Jane Krakowski, Sean Hayes, Cheyenne Jackson and Randy Graff - is currently in previews at the famed New York venue.

Click pic for a photo gallery of 'Damn Yankees' images through the years. What does it take to put "Damn Yankees" together? You've gotta have heart.

Following its acclaimed production of Gypsy , which transferred to Broadway and recently won three Tony Awards, City Center's Encores! Summer Stars series returns for a second season with the Tony-winning Damn ...

' Bob Fosse was born June 23, 1927, in Chicago, IL. The son of a vaudeville singer, he began his show business career at the age of 13.

Megan Lawrence has been added to the cast of Damn Yankees as reporter Gloria Thorpe, replacing Ana Gasteyer, who "has suffered a minor injury," according to a press statement.

Veanne Cox, Michael Mulheren and P.J. Benjamin have signed on for the Encores! Summer Stars production of Damn Yankees .

Veanne Cox, Michael Mulheren and P.J. Benjamin have signed on for the Encores! Summer Stars production of Damn Yankees .

“If you do institutional theater, there comes a time you can't afford it because it doesn't pay well enough to support a family.”

Years from now, the millennium decade will be regarded nostalgically as a golden age for actors who like to live and work in Gotham. via Variety

Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski will star in a revival of the 1955 Faustian baseball musical "Damn Yankees," running July 5-27 at NY City Center as the second entry in the Encores! annual Summer Stars series. via Variety

“A lot of times when you see 'Damn Yankees' done, you see her being overly aggressive and overly sexy, but there's a really tender side to her. But she's powerful, too. You can't forget that. She's not a softie.”

By Peter D. Kramer The Journal News * March 14, 2008 Last year, Divya Innocent played Sarah Brown, whose sole purpose was saving souls in "Guys & Dolls." This year, her character comes from the netherworld - ... via The Patent Trader