Blog: Talking Tomorrow

Tomor­row, I’m giv­ing a talk at Book­works on Rio Grande.

No, I haven’t writ­ten a book. Nor am I sign­ing copies of any­thing. I’m talk­ing about the Broad­way musi­cal Damn Yan­kees.

The show comes to Pope­joy Hall next Fri­day. I hap­pen to know some­thing about the show, beyond my posi­tion as mar­ket­ing direc­tor for Pope­joy Hall. I directed Musi­cal The­atre Southwest’s pro­duc­tion last sum­mer. I also inter­viewed the direc­tor of the tour­ing pro­duc­tion last spring.

Damn Yan­kees is one of the more inter­est­ing shows in the Broad­way pan­theon. It was the first Broad­way musi­cal about base­ball to ever suc­ceed. Its com­pos­ing team, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, were sup­posed to be the next Rodgers & Ham­mer­stein, so the crit­ics said. But they never wrote another show after Damn Yan­kees.

Read the full blog post by Terry Davis on the Duke City Fix.