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Musical comedy about a passionate baseball fan who sells his soul to the Devil so that his favorite team can whip the New York Yankees.

Norma Besant, daughter of a Southern doctor, is an incorrigible flirt and has many boys on her string. She begins to favor Michael Jeffrey, who, shiftless and hot-tempered but fundamentally honorable, is warned off by her father. When Michael returns after a long absence, the pair are innocently compromised, and Dr. Besant's old-South paternal rage brings tragedy when he shoots and kills the young suitor and is put on trial for the crime. --Description based on original 1929 film version which starred Mary Pickford.

Burn Brae Dinner Theatre presents "Damn Yankees," book by George Abbott, Douglass Wallop, words and music by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, based on a novel by Douglass Wallop, producers John Kinnamon and Bernard T. Levin, director John Kinnamon, assistants to the director Harry Williams, Susan Rogers, musical director Martin Piecuch, set design d'adcy albertson, lighting design Arnold E. Levine, costumes coordinated by Carolyn Capps.

St. James Theatre, Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin in association with Gwen Rickard present Ray Bolger in "Where's Charley?" (based on Brandon Thomas' "Charley's Aunt"), book by George Abbott, words and music by Frank Loesser, dances directed by George Balanchine, assisted by Fred Danielli, sets and costumes by David Ffolkes, vocal arrangements and direction by Gerry Dolin, orchestrations by Ted Royall, Hans Spialek, Phil Lang, musical director Edward Simons, with Beverlee Bozeman, Byron Palmer, Doretta Morrow, Horace Cooper, Jane Lawrence, Paul England, production directed by George Abbott.

The Broadhurst Theatre, Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince present "Fiorello!," a new musical, book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, with Tom Bosley, Patricia Wilson, Ellen Hanley, Howard Da Silva, Mark Dawson, Nathaniel Frey, and Pat Stanley, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction Hal Hastings, orchestrations by Irwin Kostal, dance music arranged by Jack Elliott, hair styles by Ronald De Mann, production directed by George Abbott.