Old and new go hand in hand — or back to back, to be more accurate — on this mid-August afternoon at Arena Stage, where rehearsals are underway for a Broadway-aimed revival of “Damn Yankees.”

Strutting though the seductive number “Two Lost Souls,” stars Jordan Donica and Ana Villafañe are bending their knees, bridging their backs together and marching in hypnotic unison. It’s a deft movement Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon performed in 1958’s “Damn Yankees” film adaptation, during the tune “Who’s Got the Pain,” and one of many homages director-choreographer Sergio Trujillo has dropped into this carefully calibrated musical reinvention.

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