But Damn Yankees missed some where. Even the famous and controversial striptease scene fails to come off. Hollywood has taken a smash Broadway musical about baseball and made it into a cinematized ...

DAMN YANKEES originally debuted on Broadway in 1955, directed by Abbott; it won seven Tony Awards. Scott Landis, Jerry Frankel and Jay and Cindy Gutterman are producing the revival with Richards.

Damn Yankees won't let them down; it is a better show than Pajama Game. The big improvement in the composers' technique is the more careful weaving of sings into book. "There Once was a Man" and ...