Neil Patrick Harris to Lead ‘Damn Yankees’ Broadway Revival with Julianne Hough & Austin Scott
Neil Patrick Harris is returning to Broadway in spring 2027!
The 53-year-old Tony Award-winning actor can be starring within the upcoming revival of the musical Damn Yankees, and he’ll be joined by Julianne Hough and Austin Scott, who’re each additionally returning to the Great White Way.
The huge information was introduced on Sunday (September 27), with the three stars making an look at Yankee Stadium for the announcement.
The MLB and it’s Emmy-winning MLB Studios are additionally becoming a member of the manufacturing as a accomplice!
What is Damn Yankees about?
The Tony-winning musical first debuted on Broadway in 1955, that includes a e book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.
The upcoming manufacturing can be a newly tailored manufacturing by Will Power and Doug Wright, with extra lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and marks the primary Broadway revival of the present in over 30 years!
Here’s a synopsis: It’s the early 2000s, and diehard baseball fan Joe Boyd desires of seeing his beloved Baltimore Orioles return to glory. So when a captivating stranger and his charming confederate arrive with a proposal too good to refuse, Joe makes a deal that might give each him and his workforce a second likelihood. There’s only one catch…
Sergio Trujillo will direct and choreograph.
In the upcoming Broadway revival, Neil will star as Applegate, Julianne will play Lola, and Austin will play Young Joe.
Neil is, in fact, removed from a stranger on the Broadway stage, having starred in quite a few productions all through his profession, together with in Proof, Cabaret, Assassins, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, and Art. He additionally starred within the 2024 manufacturing of Hedwig and the Angry Itch, which was its Broadway debut, for which he received the Tony award for Best Actor in a Musical that very same yr.
This will mark Julianne‘s second Broadway present, however her first Broadway musical. She beforehand starred within the play POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive in 2022.
Austin can be no stranger to Broadway, having starred in Hamilton, Girl from the North Country, and & Juliet.
Damn Yankees will carry out on the Marquis Theatre with previews starting Wednesday, March 24, 2027. The opening night time is ready for Tuesday, April twentieth.
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