A Lot of Brains, A Lot of Talent

Playbill : "Fresh off his success in 1954 with The Pajama Game, director and bookwriter George Abbott turned to Wallop's novel as the basis of his 1955 musical hit, Damn Yankees. He reassembled much of the team from The Pajama Game, including the young songwriters Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Adler and Ross, both native New Yorkers, began writing together in 1950 and under the guidance of their mentor Frank Loesser, began to achieve real success in 1953. That year they wrote songs for their first Broadway show, the revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac."