[Grovenet] Damn Yankees Opens Friday!

[Ken Centers]

Just wanted to let everyone know that DAMN YANKEES opens this Friday at 
Theatre in the Grove. It really is one of the great all-time musicals, 
wonderful songs and big production numbers.

Tickets are avalable at the Ice Cream Shoppe, 2001 Main Street, and at the 
theatre box office on performance night. $12.00 for adults, and $10.00 for 
students and seniors.

Below is the press release if you would like to know more about it.

Thanks,
Ken


THOSE DAMN YANKEES!
Every baseball season the New York Yankees break the heart of diehard 
Washington Senators' fan Joe Boyd.  Then one fateful night, Joe wishes 
aloud that he would sell his soul to help his team win
.and guess who 
overhears and proposes a trade to give Joe his dream.  Now Joe gets his 
chance to lead the Senators to the pennant, but is love more powerful than 
the devil or the Yankees?
  And what music!  This comedy has crowd-pleasing favorites such as 
“Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO,” “You Gotta Have Heart,” “Six Months Out 
of Every Year,” “Goodbye Old Girl” and “Whatever Lola Wants
Lola Gets!” 
Plus many more!
Damn Yankees, which is based on Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost 
the Pennant, with music and lyrics by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler, and 
book by Douglass Wallop and George Abbot, tells the story of Joe Boyd, a 
balding, middle-aged real estate salesman in Washington, D.C., who is an 
avid fan of his hometown ball team. In a rash moment he murmurs that he'd 
"sell his soul to see the Washington Senators win the pennant from the damn 
Yankees."  At this moment the Devil appears, in the guise of a personable 
gentleman called Mr. Applegate, who offers to make a pact with him: in 
return for his soul, he will transform him into a young and unbeatable 
ballplayer.  The real estate agent agrees but insists on an "escape 
clause," whereby at a certain date he will be restored to his former self 
to rejoin his wife and live out his years normally. Applegate agrees.
The phenomenal young player, now known as Joe Hardy, joins the Senators, 
and the team moves right up to second place in the American League. But, 
Applegate has other plans:  he is secretly on the side of the Yankees and 
is plotting to whet the hopes of the Senators and then to wrest the victory 
away from them at the final hour.
When young Hardy learns this, he asks to exercise his option and to be 
returned to his former status at and return to his faithful wife. But, 
Applegate employs the services of Lola, a ravishingly beautiful witch, to 
tempt him into staying on the side of the Devil. However, Hardy remains 
true to the wife he left behind him.
Lola breaks precedent by falling in love with her victim and aids him in 
attempting to defeat Applegate. Will the Senators win the pennant? Will Joe 
be able to return to his wife? Or will he be doomed for all time? Get your 
tickets as soon as possible so you can find out!
Damn Yankees is directed by veteran TITG director/actor Pruella Centers, 
and stars TITG favorites Dan Harry as Applegate, Jodi Coffman as Lola, 
Daniel Kezcmer as Young Joe Hardy, John Ollis as Joe Boyd, and Ron Hansen 
as the Senators’ manager Van Buren.
Performance dates are May 26, 27, June 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 at 8:00 P.M., 
and May 28, June 4, 11, 18 at 2:30 P.M.
Tickets can be purchased at the Ice Cream Shoppe, 2001 Main Street in 
Forest Grove , (503) 357-8336. Tickets are $12.00 for Adults, and $10.00 
for Students and Seniors.