Cox, Mulheren and Benjamin Join Damn Yankees; Complete Cast Set
Veanne Cox, Michael Mulheren and P.J. Benjamin have signed on for the Encores! Summer Stars production of Damn Yankees. They join previously announced headliners Sean Hayes, Jane Krakowski, Cheyenne Jackson, Ana Gasteyer and Randy Graff. John Rando will helm the production, which begins previews on July 5 and opens on July 10.
Additional cast members are Robert Creighton, Jimmy Smagula, Kathy Fitzgerald, John Horton, John Selya, Nathan Balser, David Baum, Jimmy Ray Bennett, Rachel Coloff, Anderson David, Marya Grandy, Shannon Lews, Jay Lusteck, Pamela Otterson, Adam Perry, Karine Plantadit, T. Oliver Reid, Jon Rua, Stacy Sargeant, Alexander Scheitinger, Chandra Lee Schwartz, Baron Vaughn and Cody Ryan Wise.
Damn Yankees has a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and is based on Wallop's novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. It is the story of Joe Boyd, the ultimate baseball fan, who sells his soul to the Devil Hayes for the chance to help his team, the Washington Senators, win the pennant race against the Yankees. The Devil is aided by the sexy Lola Krakowski, who seduces a now younger, physically transformed Joe Jackson, but ultimately helps him outsmart the Devil and return to his beloved wife Graff. Songs include "Heart" and "Whatever Lola Wants."
Damn Yankees will play at New York City Center through July 27.
