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“Yanks-Tigers has look of a reunion - New York Yankees” plus 1 more

“Yanks-Tigers has look of a reunion - New York Yankees” plus 1 more

Yanks-Tigers has look of a reunion - New York Yankees

Posted: 09 May 2010 09:19 PM PDT

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By Tim Britton / MLB.com

05/09/10 11:30 PM ET

When the Yankees take the field at Comerica Park on Monday night, there will be an all-too-familiar face across the way. Johnny Damon, one of the heroes of last season's World Series championship team, will play his first game against the Yanks since signing with the Tigers during Spring Training.

"I think it's always good to see guys that you played with, guys that you managed," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "The Tigers have been playing pretty well, so we'll have four tough games there. But it will be good to see Johnny. I'm sure there will be some laughs tomorrow."

Damon spent four seasons in Yankees pinstripes, batting .285 in that time and twice hitting a career-high 24 home runs. Damon raised his game during the Yankees' championship run in 2009, hitting .327 with two homers and nine RBIs in the American League Championship Series and World Series. But he'll be most remembered for his heroics in the top of the ninth inning in Game 4 of the Fall Classic, when his two-out single and famous double steal helped the Yankees build a 3-1 series advantage.

Some New York fans already paid homage to Damon during Spring Training, when the outfielder received a prolonged ovation during a Tigers-Yankees game in Tampa, Fla., on March 28. The game was held up for a moment while Damon acknowledged the applause -- some of which even came from Yankees stars Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez, who removed their gloves to clap for their former teammate.

Damon entered Monday's game batting .302 with one home run and 14 RBIs for the Tigers this season.

Damon isn't the only Tigers outfielder with whom the Yankees are familiar, though. Austin Jackson, the former prized prospect of the New York organization, is off to a sizzling start in the Motor City, leading the AL with a .371 average in his rookie season. Jackson took home AL Rookie of the Month honors in April in one of the easiest calls in the award's history.

"We always thought he was a talented player," Girardi said of Jackson. "I had seen a lot of progress in the two Spring Trainings that I had seen him, 2008 and 2009. I don't think you'll ever predict that someone is going to hit .370 -- that just doesn't happen -- but he has played great for Detroit."

The player the Yankees received in exchange for Jackson and others, Curtis Granderson, did not make the trip to his former stomping grounds because of the strained left groin that has had him on the disabled list since May 2.

Granderson had been eagerly awaiting the Yankees' lone series this year at his former home, especially since he had friends and family planning to make the trip from Chicago to see him.

"I was looking forward to seeing friends and teammates that I haven't talked to over there," Granderson said. "I've got to stay back and get better. I probably wouldn't have been able to do anything; I'd still be inside getting treatment."

Granderson played for the Tigers from 2004-09, amassing 102 home runs and 299 RBIs in Detroit before being traded to the Bronx in the offseason.

Granderson is still hopeful for a chance to visit Comerica Park later in the season, though.

"Maybe I'll run into them in October," Granderson said.

Tim Britton is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Jason Danieley & Frontier Heroes Play Actors Fund Show ... - Broadway World

Posted: 09 May 2010 09:55 PM PDT

Jason Danieley and the Frontier Heroes will perform a benefit concert for the Actors Fund on May 10 at 8:30 PM at Feinstein's at the Regency (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

Broadway actor, singer and concert performer, Jason Danieley has been entertaining audiences from New York's Theatre District and London's West End to Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
Jason most recently starred on Broadway in Kander & Ebb's CURTAINS (Outer Critics Circle Nomination). He made his Broadway debut as the title character in CANDIDE, directed by theater legend Harold Prince. (Theatre World Award, Drama League Award, and Drama Desk nomination). He took it all off for THE FULL MONTY in the original Broadway and West End casts. A frequent guest of New York's highly acclaimed City Center Encores! series, Jason has had leading roles in A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN and STRIKE UP THE BAND. His Off-Broadway appearances include: THE TROJAN WOMEN: A LOVE STORY by Charles Mee, Jr., DREAM TRUE by Ricky Ian Gordan, and FLOYD COLLINS by Adam Guettel. Some of his Regional Theatre appearances include: THE HIGHEST YELLOW by Michael John LaChiusa (Helen Hayes Award, Best Actor in a musical), BEAUTY by Tina Landau, CASINO PARADISE by William Bolcolm, 110 IN THE SHADE (Garland Award, Actor in a Musical), and BRIGADOON at Los Angeles' Reprise! concert series.

Many of the country's leading orchestras have invited Jason to be a guest artist, including the New York, Boston, and Philly Pops, LA Philharmonic (at the Hollywood Bowl), and St. Louis, Utah, Minnesota, and Buffalo Symphonies. He's starred in fully staged concert versions of Bernstein's CANDIDE and Gershwin's OF THEE I SING and LET 'EM EAT CAKE (conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas) with the San Francisco Symphony, as well as other major concert versions of CAROUSEL as Enoch Snow with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and SOUTH PACIFIC as Lt. Cable, both at Carnegie Hall. The latter was taped and aired on PBS Great Performances in Spring of 2006.

OPPOSITE YOU is the cabaret/concert Jason and his wife Marin Mazzie created for Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series. They have performed it nationally at venues from Joe's Pub in New York to the Cinegrill in Los Angeles. It was recorded on PS Classics and released in the Fall of 2005.
In 2008, Jason Danieley and The Frontier Heroes released their self-titled debut CD on the PS Classics Label. Jason and The Frontier Heroes have performed their critically acclaimed concert, LOVE: A WORK IN PROGRESS, at venues throughout New York City.

Other albums Jason can be heard on are the cast albums of FLOYD COLLINS, CANDIDE, THE FULL MONTY, and in 2006, DREAM TRUE (PS Classics), THE Stephen Schwartz ALBUM, SOUTH PACIFIC IN CONCERT AT Carnegie Hall, Jule Styne IN HOLLYWOOD (PS Classics), and two of the Boston Pops albums, A SPLASH OF POPS and MY FAVORITE THINGS.

THE ACTORS FUND is a national human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment. The Fund - which supports those on stage and screen and everyone behind the scenes who works in theatre, film, TV, music, dance, radio and opera - is a safety net, providing social services and emergency assistance, health services and health insurance information, employment and training programs and housing resources for those who are in need, crisis or transition. Learn more about all of The Actors Fund's services and programs at www.actorsfund.org.

For further information or to order tickets, visit online at www.feinsteinsattheregency.com.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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