Damn Yankees! | |
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Genre | Comedy Musical Sport |
Written by |
George Abbott (book) Douglass Wallop (book) |
Directed by | Kirk Browning |
Starring |
Phil Silvers Lee Remick Jerry Lanning |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Alvin Cooperman |
Producer | Robert Wright (associate producer) |
Production location | NBC Brooklyn Studios |
Editor | Jack Shultis |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Production company | NBC |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | April 8, 1967 |
Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the baseball musical Damn Yankees. [1]
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.
Note: All the principal cast were singers, so they could all supply their own vocals for the soundtrack without being dubbed.