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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.
Richard Adler (August 3, 1921 – June 21, 2012) was an American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows. [1] He is best known for his work with Jerry Ross on the musicals The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955). [2]
"Whatever Lola Wants" is a popular song, sometimes rendered as "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets". The music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the 1955 musical play Damn Yankees. The song is sung to Joe Hardy by Lola, the Devil's assistant, a part originated by Gwen Verdon, who reprised the role in the film.
Other notable songs were "Steam Heat" (choreographed on stage by Bob Fosse), "Small Talk", and "Seven and a Half Cents". Their next musical, Damn Yankees, opened on Broadway in 1955, starring Gwen Verdon. The musical ran for 1,019 performances. Adler and Ross, as composer and lyricist, shared in the 1956 Tony Award for Best Musical. [6]
Damn Yankees is a 1958 American musical sports romantic comedy film. It was directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Abbott, adapted from his and Douglass Wallop's book of the 1955 musical of the same name with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, itself based on the 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Wallop.
Linda Lavin, a Broadway star and Tony winner, has died. She was 87. Lavin, who guest-starred on Barney Miller before getting her own TV series, Alice, died on Sunday, Dec. 29, PEOPLE can confirm ...
"I was really bummed in season 1 that I wasn't able to do a nod to an Adler Ross musical," he says. "They're the guys who wrote Damn Yankees and Pajama Game , and I really love a lot of the songs ...
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross provided the majority of the songs for the show. [9] They later wrote songs for The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees over the course of the next two years (1954-1955). [10] [11] John Murray Anderson's Almanac was the first Broadway show for each of them.