The run closed October 12, 1957
- Opened
- May 5, 1955
- Closed
- October 12, 1957
- Performances
- 1,019
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 9th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Damn Yankees 2 more that season
| 1957 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1994 | Marquis Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien | 718 perf. |
Who was in it57 named
Richard Bishop
Frank Bouley
Ronn Cummins
Cherry Davis
Timmy Everett
Patricia Ferrier
Jeanne Grant
Marlyn Greer
Janet Hayes
Del Horstmann
Elizabeth Howell
Janie Janvier
William Joyce
Joan Keenan
Marie Kolin
Jimmie Komack
Al Lanti
Albert Linville
Suzanne Lovell
Ralph Lowe
George Marcy
Julia Marlowe
Svetlana Mclee
Jackie Scholle
Ralph Strane
Mark Ward
William Adams
Charlotte Fairchild
Margot Feldman
Penny Ann Green
George Lake
Charles Morrell
Don Rogers
Howard Caine
Devra Korwin
Sally Brown
Sam Greene
Kenneth Leroy
Bill Mcdonald
Anita Webb
17 of these 57 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 40 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
Robert Shafer Joe Boyd
Stephen Douglass Joe Hardy
Shannon Bolin Meg Boyd
Gwen Verdon Lola
Ray Walston Mr. Applegate
Russ Brown Van Buren
Rae Allen Gloria Thorpe
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Bob Fosse
- Producer
- Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith & Harold Prince
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
- The theme of pact-making with the Devil has since shown up occasionally in the musical theatre, most notably in the 1955 success, Damn Yankees . Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 15
- "One year after The Pajama Game opened, Adler and Ross enjoyed another smash hit in Damn Yankees , and its success seemed to solidify the team’s promise of a long and productive Broadway partnership." Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 394
- Ray Walston was on his way to Damn Yankees and was replaced by John Randolph, Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 441
- Jimmie Komack had appeared in Damn Yankees and was one of the “Heart” quartet; an advertisement for Pleasure Dome noted he left the hit musical “because of his high regard for Pleasure Dome .” Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 556
- the sketch “The Year That Goethe Copped the Pennant” laughed at Damn Yankees; Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 570
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Damn Yankees at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.