Yank! A World War II Love Story
book and lyrics by David Zellnik
music by Joseph Zellnik
Opening February 24, 2010
The York Theatre Company, NYC (Off-Broadway)
and Pamela Koslow, Stuart Wilk, and Maren Berthelsen
in association with Matt Schicker
October/November 2007
The Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY
Winner: 2008 New York Innovative Theater Award (IT Award), Outstanding Production of a Musical
Nominee: 2008 GLAAD Media Award, Best Off-Off Broadway Musical
Producer: Matt Schicker/The Gallery Players
Director: Igor Goldin
Choreographer: Jeffry Denman
Musical Director: Daniel Feyer
Scenic Consultant: Ray Klausen
Lighting Design: Ken Lapham
Costume Design: Tricia Barsamian
Associate Costume Design/Military Consultant: Crystal Fergusson
Scenic Carpenter/Technical Director: Jennifer Bernstein
Casting Director: Kerry Watterson
Orchestrations: Joe Zellnik, Daniel Feyer, Josh Clayton, and Rob Berman
Production Stage Manager: Kathleen Munroe
Assistant Stage Managers: Kayla Shriner-Cahn, Kati Foy
Publicist: Paul Siebold
Featuring: Nancy Anderson*, Chris Carfizzi*, Jonathan Day*, Maxime de Toledo*, Jeffry Denman*, Todd Faulkner*, Chad Harlow*, Tyson Kaup*, Matthew Marks*, Brian Mulay, Daniel Shevlin*, Bobby Steggert*, and James Stover.
*Member, Actors’ Equity Association
(l to r) Bobby Steggert as Stu and Maxime de Toledo as Mitch in Yank!. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly.
Reviews and Quotes:
“If you’re looking for a well-crafted, gay-positive musical that’s sexy and heartfelt, you’ll have to look long and far to find anything as terrific as Yank!”
- NEXT Magazine
“Yank! is one of the most heartening theatrical experiences in years….The choreography of this show is brilliant….The show never apologizes for its honesty…at the end of Yank! the audience (including me) was on its feet.”
- The Brooklyn Paper
Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
“The old-fashioned musical is neither dying nor in need of saving…if you love Golden Age-style musical romances, you can still find them – if you know where to look. Right now, that place is Brooklyn, where The Gallery Players….[Yank! is] a touching and oh-so-tuneful look at a side of World War II we seldom see…”
- TalkinBroadway.com
“An old-fashioned musical with a contemporary, socially conscious sensibility.”
- TheaterMania
Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
“Yank! overlays a modern gay sensibility on a typical wartime crew to illustrate the sheer hell, internal and external, gay soldiers endured….More-complex emotions than many musicals allow are present….Clearly, everybody on stage cares a lot about this project, and The Gallery Players has put great effort into it: Broadway actors, a six-piece orchestra that sounds bigger, a nearly all-Equity cast, and a cartload of costumes.”
- Back Stage
““It would be a pity to miss a show as lovely as David and Joseph Zellnik’s Yank!….Tender, touching and funny, Yank! is a delightful musical, well produced by The Gallery Players.”
- Off-Off Broadway Review
(l to r) Nancy Anderson and Maxime de Toledo in Yank!. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly.
“Joseph and David Zellnik serve up a beautifully composed, entertaining slice of our secret history. But because they tell this coming out story with such rich historical and psychological detail, Yank! engages fundamental questions of love, citizenship and cultural belonging, beyond the obvious audience of lesbians and gay men….Yank! is poised to become a musical of real stature.”
- nytheatre.com
“Yank! is moving, heartbreaking, funny, lyrical, endearing, and painful….The show boasts a tour-de-force by Nancy Anderson.”
- Q Onstage
Bobby Steggert as Stu in Yank! at The Gallery Players. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly.
Jeffry Denman as Artie in Yank! at The Gallery Players. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly.
(l to r) Bobby Steggert as Stu and Maxime de Toledo as Mitch in The Gallery Players’ production of Yank!. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly.
Yank! at The Gallery Players. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly.
The cast of Yank!. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly.
