Step on My Damn Toes Again
Damn Yankees – Original Broadway Cast Recording 1955
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Synopsis
Sometime in the Future: Washington, D.C. Act I Meg and Joe Boyd are middle aged, and happily married. 1000000 knows that Joe is a skilful and faithful husband but that he isn't e'er hers. For "Six Months out of Every Year" he, like millions of other men, belongs to baseball. He is a fan of the perennially losing Washington Senators and he hates the fact that those "Damn Yankees" are going to win the American League pennant once more this year. He would do anything not to let that happen again. He would fifty-fifty sell his soul to the devil! Out of nowhere a suave man, Mr. Applegate, appears and makes Joe an offer. If Joe volition give him his soul, Mr. Applegate (a.one thousand.a. The Devil) will make Joe the great long hitter that the Senators so desperately need. Joe is, of course, concerned for Meg, but every bit he's ever wanted to be a ballplayer he gives in to the temptation. However, existence the real estate salesman that he is, he negotiates an escape clause – if he decides that he doesn't desire to requite his soul to the Devil past September 24, he can still have it dorsum. Mr. Applegate reluctantly agrees. Joe writes Meg a farewell note – "Goodbye, One-time Girl." He is transformed into a younger, more than vibrant Joe – Joe Hardy. Joe and Applegate leave to brand Joe's dream come up truthful. Outside the ball field, four Washington players sing their philosophy of baseball game and life. They may non accept the skill to beat the Yankees merely they have something else – "Heart." Mr. Applegate enters with Joe and convinces Van Buren, the coach, to requite Joe a tryout. Joe, shoeless because the previous Joe'south feet were much smaller, borrows a pair of shoes from another ballplayer. All of this is witnessed by a pushy reporter and Senators' fan, Gloria Thorpe, who at Applegate'due south invitation watches Joe'southward skillful playing. His tryout is spectacular and Gloria offers to help catapult Joe Hardy to superstar status past naming him "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo." Joe becomes irritated by all the press attention, particularly from Gloria. All he wants to do is play baseball game and assist the Senators win. More than than all of that, he realizes how much he misses 1000000. Applegate, sensing that Joe may change his listen most his soul, calls in his secret weapon: Lola, formerly the ugliest adult female in Providence, Rhode Island. Lola can practice anything – all it takes is "A Picayune Brains, A Picayune Talent." Meanwhile, Joe misses Million so much that he goes back home and convinces her to rent him a room – "A Man Doesn't Know." Meg's bridge partners recognize the slap-up Joe Hardy and are quite impressed. Out of nowhere Applegate appears to inform Meg that at that place is a new zoning law prohibiting the rental of rooms in individual homes. Joe takes Applegate outside to send him away. Applegate apace informs him that Lola is here and is dying to run into him. He explains that he isn't interested. Cheers to Joe, the Senators are on a winning streak, and after a swell game Applegate brings Lola in to run into him. He wants to get abode but Lola has other things in mind – afterward all, "Whatever Lola Wants" . . . Joe succeeds in disarming Lola that where he should exist is home with Meg. Applegate appears and chastises Lola for her failure to seduce him. The Chevy Chase Fan Club rehearses a song for a dinner saluting Joe Hardy – "Eye" – reprise. Prior to the dinner, a repentant Lola tells Joe that she'southward on his side. Gloria, on the other mitt, has just returned from Hannibal, Mo., and no one at that place has ever heard of Joe Hardy. Applegate tells Gloria emphatically that Joe Hardy is not Shifty McCoy, the ransom-taking ballplayer in the Mexican league. Meanwhile, the salute to Joe is nearly to begin, and Lola and ane of the players, Sohovik, do their number – "Who's Got the Pain?" Soon Joe is informed that the newspapers are almost to striking the streets saying that he took a bribe. The crowd is in an uproar. Joe tries to at-home them downwards. Van Buren informs him that the baseball commissioner has set a hearing for the next day, September 24, and if he can't prove who he really is, he'll be cut from the squad. Act II In the locker room, the players worry about winning a game without Joe's help. They must non be distracted by annihilation like women or Joe's hearing, or women, or booze, or women – they have to call up most "The Game." Without Joe, the Senators lose the game. Joe is worried that he won't exist able to clear his name and that Meg might lose respect for him. He calls her and they meet. Without revealing himself, he asks her if she thinks he's Shifty McCoy. She says no. She knows she's a good estimate of character. That's why she knows the other Joe, her Joe volition return to her. Joe assures her that he (the other Joe) is "Virtually to Yous." At his swanky flat, Applegate tells Lola of his plans to have the Senators lose so that Joe has to stay and play beyond the date that had been prepare. For her part Lola feels bad for Joe. Joe arrives to tell Applegate of his determination: he wants out. Today is the 24th. Applegate says it isn't as simple as that, these transformations tin can only accept place at the witching hour – midnight! Applegate tells Joe that if at five minutes to midnight he notwithstanding wants out, then be it. Joe asks what he is supposed to do if the hearing is even so going on. Applegate tells him to just ask to step into the next room and once through that door Joe Hardy will disappear forever. Joe agrees. Lola repeats the litanies that Applegate has taught her: "Never feel sorry for anybody, never feel sorry for everyone." Distressed by Lola's mental attitude and Joe's decision, Applegate reminisces virtually a time when evil things were a lot easier – "Those Were the Good Old Days." At the hearing Joe is vindicated, thanks to an impassioned oral communication past 1000000 and her bridge friends. Even so, his vindication comes only equally the clock strikes midnight. It'south too late for Joe to become his former self. Lola, for spite, has slipped four sleeping pills into an ecstatic Applegate's demon rum, so he won't wake upward until subsequently the game tomorrow. Joe's soul is lost, simply at least the Senators volition win the American League pennant. To gloat this picayune scrap of happiness, Joe and Lola become out on the boondocks – "Ii Lost Souls." The next twenty-four hours Applegate awakens to detect the game already in progress. He berates Lola for her "good" deed and and so asks her what the score is, "4 to iii, Washington," is her respond. Applegate assures her that Washington volition lose the game even if he has to transform Joe in forepart of everyone. Nonetheless, before that, he transforms Lola back to her former ugly cocky. At the game, Applegate and the ugly Lola watch equally the Senators are about to clinch the pennant. Not being able to allow himself to be outwitted by Joe, Applegate transforms him as a ball is hitting in his direction. The transformation takes place and the old Joe stumbles, but, at the last moment, he regains his balance and strength and catches the brawl. The Senators win the game. Dorsum at home the old Joe is welcomed past a relieved and happy Meg and despite the protestations of Applegate, Million and Joe notice the comfort they cherish in each other – "A Man Doesn't Know."
Credits
Lola: Gwen Verdon Joe Hardy: Stephen Douglass Mr. Applegate: Ray Walston Joe Boyd: Robert Shafer Meg: Shannon Bolin Gloria Thorpe: Rae Allen Van Buren: Russ Brownish Sohovik: Eddie Phillips Baseball Players: Jimmie Komack , Richard Bishop, Nathaniel Frey Albert Linville Baseball Fans: Jean Stapleton, Ronn Cummins, Jackie Scholle, Cherry Davis Singers: Jeanne Grant, Janet Hayes, Janie Janvier, Joan Keenan, Suzanne Lovell, Frank Bouley, Fred Bryan, Del Horstmann, Ralph Lowe, Ralph Strane Dancers: Betty Carr, Margot Feldman, Patricia Ferrier, Marie Kolin, Julia Marlowe, Svetlana McLee, Lynn Ross, Robert Evans, Louis Johnson, William Joyce, Harvey Jung, Al Lanti, George Lake, Charles Morrell, Mark Ward
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