Forty-Sixth Street Theatre Frederick Brisson, Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince in association with Albert B. Taylor present "Damn Yankees," a new musical, (based on the novel, "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant," by Douglass Wallop) starring Gwen Verdon, Stephen Douglass, with Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Jimmie Komack, Nathaniel Frey, Richard Bishop, Jean Stapleton, Robert Shafer and Rae Allen, book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, dances and musical numbers staged by Bob Fosse, scenery and costumes designed by William and Jean Eckert, musical direction by Hal Hastings, orchestrations by Don Walker, dance music arrangements by Roger Adams, production directed by George Abbott.