As American as apple pie and the Fourth of July -- if not moreso -- the beloved 1955 musical
Damn Yankees has returned, this time to City Center as the second entry in the Encores! Summer Stars series. And what an apt name this series has, because it's the stellar work of Sean Hayes, Jane Krakowski, Cheyenne Jackson, and Randy Graff that consistently elevates John Rando's mostly solid revival.

Of course, the entire cast -- which also boasts an appropriately hard-bitten Megan Lawrence as sportswriter Gloria Thorpe, a gruff Michael Mulheren as baseball coach Benny Van Buren, an affecting P.J. Benjamin as diehard Washington Senators fan Joe Boyd, and especially the hilarious Veanne Cox and Ka[...]