By Holly Tishfield<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve ever caught yourself wondering what, exactly, you\u2019d trade to see your favorite baseball team win the World Series, have you ever considered giving up your very soul? That\u2019s exactly the conundrum Joe Boyd, played by Bob O\u2019Hara, faces in this month\u2019s show-stopping \u201cDamn Yankees\u201d musical at Alhambra Theatre & Dining.<\/p>\n
Based on the novel, \u201cThe Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant\u201d by Douglass Wallop, \u201cDamn Yankees\u201d is set in 1950s America and revolves around the life of old-timer Joe Boyd, who wants to help his favorite baseball team, the Washington Senators, win the pennant race against the New York Yankees so badly that he makes a deal with the Devil, known as Mr. Applegate, to turn him into a young player now renamed Joe Hardy, played by Thaddeus Walker. Mr. Applegate, played by Allan Baker, helps Boyd get a spot on the Washington Senators team and he helps lead the team to victory \u2014 but his life isn\u2019t all sunshine and rainbows, even if he does help the Senators beat those damn Yankees.<\/p>\n
Boyd misses his wife \u2014 Meg, played by Lisa Valdini Booth \u2014 and soon discovers that Mr. Applegate isn\u2019t just after a victory against the Yankees, but actually wants to keep Joe\u2019s soul in his grasp for all eternity.<\/p>\n
This romantic comedy plays on the highs and lows of American baseball with musical numbers such as \u201cShowless Joe from Hannibal, Mo,\u201d \u201cWho\u2019s Got the Pain?\u201d and \u201cThose Were the Good Old Days.\u201d It first opened on Broadway in 1955 and boasts seven Tony awards, with an all-star cast at Alhambra including Charity Walton, Natalie Drake, Alec Hadden, Patti Eyler, Maureen McCluskey and many more.<\/p>\n
The show comes to life on Alhambra\u2019s stage with dazzling set pieces, \u201850s-style costumes and musical talent that\u2019ll have you dancing along in your seats.<\/p>\n
Setting the scene, Chef DeJuan Roy prepares a meal with appetizer choices of minestrone soup or salad, entree choices including chicken Provencal or herb and breadcrumb haddock, and dessert of Cracker Jake cake or apple crumb pie.<\/p>\n
\u201cDamn Yankees\u201d is playing at Alhambra now through April 5, and tickets are available on the theatre\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Holly Tishfield If you\u2019ve ever caught yourself wondering what, exactly, you\u2019d trade to see your favorite baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-178795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}