Tonight's Opening Night!
Thanks to all the Yank! fans out there who stuck by us for the journey up through this point... and thanks to all of the new ones! Looking forward to taking the rest of the journey with you wherever that may lead. Check out some of this amazing press that keeps rolling in...
What an exciting day for YANK! Yank! was featured today on Page One of The New York Times in a story about the evolution of gay theatre. A color picture of Bobby and Ivan ran on the front page of the print edition and was featured prominently on nytimes.com. We’re also front page news in The Advocate.
February 17, 2010
YANK! at SPLASH! The cast of Yank! will appear at Splash bar on March 1st for "Musical Mondays". Be sure to join us at the canteen!
February 16, 2010
More interviews.... Things are really off and rolling! Another great day of press! Bobby’s interview was featured in Theatremania, NYMag.com named Yank! a “Critic’s Pick”, and the beginning of the run was announced on Playbill Online.
February 12, 2010
Front page on Variety! Today Yank! was featured as the cover story of Variety! How exciting is that?? There was also an amazing interview in the Daily News with Bobby!
February 11, 2010
YANK! in the press Some more amazing press came out today in Times Square Gossip about the press Meet and Greet and a fantastic interview with the Zellniks was published in Time Out New York!
February 4, 2010
More YANK! photos More rehearsal pictures were posted… this time on Playbill Online!
February 3, 2010
Sneak Peek at YANK! The press got a “sneak peek” at Yank! today with David and Joe narrating and the cast performing five numbers from the show. The turnout was excellent and the cast was in tip-top form. Check out some photos posted on Theatremania.com, Wire Image, and Getty Images.
February 2, 2010
YANK! Q&A David and Joe did a wonderful Q&A session about Yank! and their work together. Check it out!
January 28, 2010
Seth's Broadway Chatterbox! Bobby is welcomed by Seth Rudetsky for his weekly live talk show Seth’s Broadway Chatterbox!
January 26, 2010
Rehearsal begins! First Day of Rehearsal was amazing!! We figured you’d like to see them first-hand so we took some pictures!
Bobby Steggert Q&A New York Theatre Guide - Online features Bobby Steggert in their Q&A interview section! Find out everything you ever wanted to know about Bobby.
Follow us on Twitter! twitter.com/YankTheMusical Ok so we’re new to this twitter thing but we promise to learn how to use this newfangled tool in time to give you any and all gossip fit to tweet. Which means casting updates (we’re nearly cast! More soon!), production meeting reports, and come January 26th: rehearsal bulletins!
December 1, 2009
Tickets on sale for YANK! The York Theatre and the entire Yank! team are thrilled to announce that tickets for the Off-Broadway debut of Yank! are on sale! Performances begin Feb 16 through March 21 and if history is any guide, you should buy your tickets now! Order online here or call the York Theatre Box Office at (212) 935-5820, Monday - Friday 12 – 6.
November 17, 2009
"Behind the Scenes at YANK!" travels to Chicago! Joe and David perform our 45-minute presentation about how we wrote Yank! and why we think it’s so important that it’s happening now. “Behind the Scenes at Yank!” will be performed upstairs at the Victory Gardens Theatre with special guest Charissa Armon. If you or anyone you know in Chicago would like to come, please let us know!
Joe and David (hosted by Out Professionals and the JCC of New York) present a look at how they wrote YANK! “Behind the Scenes at the Creation of Yank!,
the Gay World War II Musical”
Come hear cut songs! Come hear how they found producers! Come hear the first song they ever wrote (David age 11, Joe age 13)! Special guest Stacia Fernandez belts out new song “You Boys” and old favorite “Blue Twilight”.
May 17, 2009
YANK! set to make Off-Broadwday debut at the York Theatre in February 2010! Great news: after much planning, we can finally announce that YANK! will be having its Off-Broadway premiere in February 2010 at the York Theatre! This will be more than a remount of the Brooklyn Gallery Players production of Oct/Nov 2007. It will be an enhanced version with new design ideas, several new cast members... and a new act 2 song. We are tremendously excited to know that YANK! will finally arrive in style in Manhattan at such a wonderful theatre, fresh off its smash hit this season "Enter Laughing". Read about it in the NY Times and Playbill! Check back soon for casting news!
October 14, 2008
Nellie McKay to sing "Blue Twilight" from YANK! The song will be performed at a benefit on October 20th for the Chase Brock
Experience Dance Company. Chase choreographed the 2005 New York Musical
Theatre Festival production of YANK! and will pair the song with a haunting
male pas-de-deux. For tickets call (212) 307-4100 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.
October 10, 2008
Two chances to see YANK! next month! We're excited to announce there will be two full readings of the show, on
November 10th at 3pm and 7:30 pm, again on the stage of the York Theatre -
as we move towards a full production (aiming for Spring '09.) Our fabulous
cast will again be headed by Bobby Steggert, Ivan Hernandez, Nancy Anderson,
and Jeffry Denman, with composer Joe Zellnik on the keyboard! For more
information, or to make a reservation, click here.
September 22, 2008
YANK! wins Best Musical at the 2008 New York IT Awards! At tonight's award ceremony for the New York Innovative Theater (IT) Awards, Michael Beresse presented the award for "Best Musical” to the 2007 production of YANK! at The Gallery Players. Accepting the award were Gallery producer Matt Schicker, and bookwriter/lyricist David Zellnik. Check out the news at Theatremania - where we're the featured pic! - and Playbill.com.
September 8, 2008
YANK! aims for New York next spring! We are thrilled to announce that YANK! has been optioned by a team
of producers, headed by Pamela Koslow (whose credits include Broadway’s
JELLY’S LAST JAM and JANE EYRE). Pam is joined by producers Stuart Wilk
and Maren Berthelsen. They are currently planning for a Spring 2009 production.
For more information, or to find out how you can be a part of making
YANK! happen, please contact Pam Koslow at janeroll@aol.com.
September 2, 2008
Diversionary's YANK! makes Stage Scene LA's Best of 2007-08 List! Even though San Diego is a few hours from LA, Yank! made its presence
felt! The show was cited in multiple categories: Outstanding Achievement
in Direction of a Musical, Igor Goldin; Outstanding Achievement by a
Lead Actor in a Musical, Tom Zohar; Outstanding Achievement by a Musical
Director, Amy Dalton; and Best Musical (Intimate Theatre)! Check out
the full list of winners here.
August 17, 2008
YANK! at the Divisionary! Check out our new gallery of show pics from
the San Diego production!
July 21, 2008
YANK! receives two New York IT Award nominations! The Fall 2007 production at The Gallery Players has received two
New York Innovative Theater (IT) Award nominations, one for Bobby Steggert
as "Best Lead Actor” and one for "Best Musical”!
July 12, 2008
YANK! opens at the Diversionary Check out the reviews!
July 10, 2008
KPBS Podcast available for download! For those of you that missed it, or live outside the area, Tom Fudge's
interview with David Joe and Igor about YANK! at the Diversionary can
be heard here.
July 5, 2008
West Coast listeners, tune in next Tuesday David, Joe and Igor will be interviewed by host Tom Fudge on one
of San Diego's top morning radio shows, These Days, on the local PBS
radio affiliate KPBS. The interview will be broacast live from 10:30
to 11:00am on Tuesday July 8.
June 17, 2008
Tickets now on sale for YANK! in San Diego! For more information, check out the Diversionary Theatre website
at www.diversionary.org.
May 10, 2008
A number from YANK! will be featured as part of York Theatre's NEO4
Benefit Concert on May 19! The song is "Betty", and it will be performed by Bobby
Steggert, Ivan Hernandez, Tally Sessions, and Curtis Holbrook. For more
information: NEO4
March 13, 2008
YANK! gets Its West Coast Premiere Yank! will be receiving its West Coast Premiere this July at the
Diversionary Theatre in San Diego. Read more about it on Playbill or
check out the Diversionary site.
For more on the San Diego production, click here.
February 23, 2008
YANK! to have two readings! The York
Theatre Developmental Reading Series will present YANK! on March
11 at 3pm. The cast will include Bobby Steggert, Nancy Anderson, Jeffry
Denman and Chad Harlow from the Gallery Players production, joined
by Ivan Hernandez and Tally Sessions from NYMF and YANK! newcomers
Curtis Holbrook, Kevin Worley, Matt Loehr, Leo Ash Evens, Dennis Stowe
and Doug Shapiro. To learn more, read about it on Playbill.
There will also be an invitation only reading on Monday the 10th at the
Zipper Factory Theatre.
February 8, 2008
YANK! listed on Huffington Post in a round up of the year's best
new music! “My favorite new musical of the year was an Off Off Broadway gem called
Yank!
about two soldiers falling in love during World War II. I'm greedily listening
to a
demo recording of the music and looking forward to a future production
Off Broadway
or elsewhere with a full cast.” Read
the entry -- look at #37 under the
extended list.
January 23, 2008
YANK!gets its first nod from a national organization! YANK!
nominated for an Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off Broadway award
by GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Read more
about it at Playbill and GLAAD.
January 21, 2008
Big News Coming Soon!
...in New York:
We're excited to be able to report that plans are in the works for an
upcoming remount in New York (in Manhattan, in Fall 2008). More info
about that very soon, and ways you can help if you want!
...and Regionally:
Already 3 theatres around the country have expressed strong interest!
More as plans become finalized!
January 18, 2008
There's a NEW DEMO of YANK!
It combines tracks featuring the Gallery Players cast as well as a few tracks
recorded with our 2005 cast. And the whole thing includes the full orchestration
heard at the Gallery! Hear how it sounds! Or click
here to request a demo.
January 26, 2008 The New
York Daily News says Yank! sure to move Off-Broadway!
Michael Giltz says Gallery Players mounted: “a recent, critically acclaimed
production of the appealing new musical "Yank!" (by David
and Joseph Zellnik), which is sure to have a future life Off-Broadway!”
January 21, 2008
Yank!'s photo makes Playbill's
and TheatreMania's
reporting of the GLAAD nominations!