New Broadway revival of “Damn Yankees” starring Neil Patrick Harris, Julianne Hough & Austin Scott announced!

This is cool news! Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, who I saw on Broadway a year ago in the play Art, will return to The Great White Way next spring in the first Broadway revival of the classic musical Damn Yankees in more than three decades. Julianne Hough will also star.

The news was fittingly announced Sunday, Sept. 27, live from Yankee Stadium.

Based on Douglass Wallop’s novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, Damn Yankees puts a big league spin on the classic Faustian bargain, following a diehard baseball fan who makes a deal with the Devil to help his beloved team return to glory. The Devil transforms him into a young baseball star, but when he begins to have second thoughts about their deal, his seductive assistant is enlisted to tempt him and keep him from returning to his old life.

Harris, 53, will play the devilish Applegate, while Hough, 38, will take on the role of his temptress Lola. They’ll be joined by stage veteran Austin Scott as Young Joe, the baseball phenom at the center of Applegate’s scheme.

The newly reimagined production will begin previews at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre on March 24, 2027, ahead of an April 20 opening night. Tony Award winner Sergio Trujillo (Ain’t Too Proud, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical) will direct and choreograph.