19:15, Tue 23rd February 2027 at Gielgud Theatre
19:15, Fri 26th February 2027 at London Palladium
19:30, Sat 27th February 2027 at Royal Court Theatre
20:00, Tue 2nd March 2027 at Savoy Theatre
20:30, Wed 3rd March 2027 at Random Venue 87
19:45, Thu 4th March 2027 at Gielgud Theatre
19:45, Sat 6th March 2027 at Chichester Festival Theatre
19:45, Mon 8th March 2027 at London Palladium
Lent Week 5 to Week 7
Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. The musical is based on Wallop's novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
Damn Yankees ran for 1,019 performances in its original 1955 Broadway production. Adler and Ross's success with The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees seemed to point to a bright future for them, but Ross suddenly died of chronic bronchiectasis, at the age of twenty-nine, a few months after Damn Yankees opened.
