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Midweek Musical: Damn Yankees

on BBC Two England

(What Lola Wants) starring
Tab Hunter
Gwen Verdon Ray Walston
This American reworking of the Faust legend into the story of the baseball fan who made a pact with the devil, became a highly successful Broadway musical.
Joe Boyd , a middle-aged business-man, would give anything to see the Washington Senators win the coveted pennant from the Yankees baseball team. When an elegant stranger offers him just that, it is an offer Joe cannot refuse - but he has not been selling insurance for 20 years without learning a trick or two himself.
Music and lyrics by RICHARD ADLER and JERRY ROSS Produced and directed by STANLEY DONEN and GEORGE ABBOTT Films: page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Tab Hunter
Unknown:
Gwen Verdon
Unknown:
Ray Walston
Musical:
Joe Boyd
Unknown:
Richard Adler
Unknown:
Jerry Ross
Directed By:
Stanley Donen
Directed By:
George Abbott
Joe Hardy:
Tab Hunter
Lola:
Gwen Verdon
Applegate:
Ray Walston
Van Buren:
Russ Brown
Meg:
Shannon Bolin
Smokey:
Nathaniel Frey
Rocky:
Jimmie KomacK
Gloria:
Rae Allen
Joe Boyd:
Robert Shaeffer
Sister:
Jean Stapleton
Vernon:
Albert Linville

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