If you see a crowd of Baltimore Orioles fans streaming out of the Waterfront Metro station, rest assured they did not make a navigational error en route to Nationals Parks. They’re probably heading to Arena Stage’s home-run production of Damn Yankees, the cherished albeit dusty musical by composing team Richard Adler and Jerry Ross and book writers George Abbott and Douglass Wallop that has long been a workhorse for high school productions and community theaters. But co-adaptors Will Power and Doug Wright have brushed off the plate with the assistance of director and choreographer Sergio Trujillo for what amounts to spring training—or at least a fall tryout—of a production that runs through Nov. 9 and is openly eyeing a Broadway transfer next year.

In this Damn Yankees, we find middle-age

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