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ON STAGE
Sierra High drama presents musical comedy play
TOP SHS PLAY DAMN YANKEES5 4-13-15
Hannah Goe plays Gloria, bottom right, performs with fellow student actors in the first act during Sundays performance by the Sierra High Schools Advanced Theater of Damn Yankees. - photo by HIME ROMERO/The Bulletin

Sierra High’s Advanced Theater has two more showings of the musical comedy  “Damn Yankees.

The modern retelling of the Faust legend opened Friday at Sierra is under the leadership of drama teacher Dianna Puett.

The cast, headed by Sam Hoffman as Old Joe, Deric Duran as Young Joe, Andrea Zarevich as Meg, Natasha Wilson as Lola, and Hannah Goe as Gloria, is on stage again at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 16; and Friday, April 17, in Sierra High’s theatre.

Tickets cost $5 if purchased in advance from Puett or of $9 at the door.

The musical comedy is based on Douglas Wallop’s novel, “The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.” Music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The modern version of the story is set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., a time when the New York Yankees dominated the Major League Baseball.

Puett’s drama class last year staged another long-running Broadway musical, “Footloose,” a Broadway musical that was also made into a movie in 1984 which starred Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer. The Broadway “Footloose,” which was adapted from the movie directed by Herbert Ross, ran 709 performances which became a stage staple from 1998 to 2000.