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Damn Yankees: Jerry Ross
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The 1994 revival production of Damn Yankees opened in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on June 4, 1997 (previews started May 29), and closed on August 9, 1997. April Nixon played Lola, with Jerry Lewis reprising his role as Mr. Applegate.[5]
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Damn Yankees was the second and last of the two musical comedies in which Richard Adler and Jerry Ross collaborated on music and lyrics, the first having been The Pajama Game. Like its eminent predecessor, Damn Yankees stayed on Broadway for over a thousand performances, the ninth musical to join this select circle. With two such resounding triumphs coming in rapid succession, Adler and Ross became one of the most promising song-and-words teams to hit Broadway since Rodgers and Hart. Tragically, this fruitful partnership was destined to come to an abrupt end when Jerry Ross died in 1955 of chronic bronchiectasis at the age of twenty-nine.
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Legendary entertainer JERRY LEWIS is to make his West End debut in the spectacularly successful Broadway musical production of DAMN YANKEES. Following on from the Broadway run and a two-year sell out tour of more than fifty cities across the US, JERRY LEWIS and the entire American company are transferring to London.
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