For me there are two kinds of musicals: ones where the music grabs me, and ones where the music doesn't grab me. The music for this one grabbed me from the very big inning. (get it?)
Most musicals have a story like Boy Meets Girl, Girl Doesn't Like Boy for some Reason, and Everybody Sings About It. The musicals I tend to like best are the ones like Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver!, or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, that don't have so much of a love-story type plotline.
Damn Yankees contains a love story, but the real Love Story of this movie is Joe's love for the Washington Senators, which then conflicts with his love for Home and Hearth. Lola comes in a distant third.
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