Richmond Triangle Players - May-June 2015
Mid-Atlantic Premiere

Book & Lyrics by David Zellnick                     Music by Joseph Zellnick
Directed by James Stover
Choreography by Rebecca Frost Mayer
Set Design by Gren Burgess              Costume Design by Alex Valentin
Projection Design by Michael Jarett
Photos by John MacLellan

YANK! is a love song to Hollywood's "it takes one of every kind" platoon flicks and to 1940s Broadway - exploring what stories get told in wartime, and how WWII became the great catalyst in bringing gay men and women together.  The score pays direct homage to  the Rodgers & Hammerstein style with its soaring melodies and open romanticism.  While all the characters in YANK! are fictional, all of the situations and viewpoints come directly from memoirs and oral histories of gay (and straight) service members who took part in WWII.  YANK! explores what it means to be a man, and what it is to fall in love and struggle to survive in a time and place where the odds are stacked against you.