Damn_Yankees!_(1967_film)

<i>Damn Yankees!</i> (1967 film)

Damn Yankees! (1967 film)

1967 American TV series or program

This article is about the film. For the original Broadway musical, see Damn Yankees. For the Rock band, see Damn Yankees (band).

Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the baseball musical Damn Yankees.[1]

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Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the story’s premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.

The pop-art production design and staging[2] featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.[3]

It was recorded at NBC's Brooklyn Studios and “colorcast“ on 8 April 1967 as a production of a relaunched ”G.E. Theater” which ran from late 60s into early 70s.

Cast

Note: All the principal cast were singers, so they could all supply their own vocals for the soundtrack without being dubbed.

References

  1. [1]
    Devilish Difficulties Pursue 'Damn Yankees': With Club in 10th, Plot of TV Musical Needs Explaining Once Upon a Time, Beating New York Was a Fantasy By Leonard Koppett. New York Times 26 Feb 1967: S3.
  2. [2]
    TV: New ‘Damn Yankees’; Kirk Browning’s Version of Musical Employs a Mixture of Staging Forms, by Jack Gould. New York Times, 10 Ap. 1967: 71.
  3. [3]
    The Cleveland Press, TV Showtime, Apr. 7-14, 1967, cover art.


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