Broadway and Baseball

I love baseball! GO CUBS! And Im obsessed with Bway...Damn Yankees, Take Me Out...

A forgotten 1930 MGM Musical, THEY LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN stars Bessie Love and vaudeville stars Gus Van & Joe Schenck. With a score by Jack Yellen & Milton Ager, it concerns two ballplayers, Jack (Schenck) and Jerry (Van) when not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary (Love), but a gold digger named Daisy (Mary Doran) has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy. Trouble ensues, but all goes right at the end.

Among its numbers are "Harlem Madness" with Nina Mae McKinney, and "Ten Sweet Mamas", a jaw-drooping number set in a baseball shower room with Van, Shenck & Benny Rubin.

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There is that great baseball scene in Ragtime:)

Go Yankees!!!!

Damn Yankees
Take Me Out
Hank Williams: Lost Highway

Thats all I can come up with.

go cubbies!! even thou they bit the big one tonite

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cubs CUBS CUBS CUBS!! Do you know what this means for us?

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Scott Bakula played Joe DiMaggio in the ill-fated Marilyn: A Musical Fable. And there are the baseball game numbers in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown ("T.E.A.M") and the Falsettoland section of Falsettos ("The Baseball Game"/"Sitting Watching Jason Play Baseball") respectively.

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In Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jimmy used to sell peanuts at Yankee games.
Also, with all this talk about the curse of the Bambino, I would love to see a revival of No No Nanette.
Go Yanks!

hey Sueleen are you from chi town??

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There's that revue about baseball, "Diamonds." I've never seen it, but I've heard one great song from it, "What You'd Call a Dream."

Go Yankees!!!!!!!!!

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there is also a musical (not-B'way) by Ossie Davis, about the Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars (same source material as the film). i think it's called BINGO.

And reason stands that someone has tried to musicalize FIELD OF DREAMS.

There's also that Little League coach comedy playing at the John Houseman right now.

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Still mourning for the Cubs here in Chicago...

Enjoyed this thread of baseball musicals and songs. Most of these shows and songs are now up on my personal radio website. Although, some of the songs are very remotely baseball-related.

If the World Series has you in a baseball mood, but you can't quite part from showtunes, check it out.

(I get nothing personally from the site, so this isn't really a plug. Just thought I'd share)

Sho-Toonz