Damn Yankees
Description
The charm of this musical’s original 1955 cast may have disguised the shambling silliness of its central story, in which a schlub sells his soul to become a baseball star. But John Rando’s stiff-jointed direction for Encores! Summer Stars draws little magic from the current company, which includes a campy Sean Hayes as the Devil, an appealing but tentative Jane Krakowski as his accomplice and a blank Cheyenne Jackson as the slugger. Despite Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’s enjoyably familiar, lightweight score, something is missing. The revival has “Heart,” but its beats are all off.—AF
When
Jul 27 2008 7pm