‘Damn Yankees’ Sept. 9 – Nov. 9 Arena Stage 1101 Sixth St., S.W. Tickets start at $49 (fees included) Arenastage.org

As a kid in Syracuse, N.Y., out musical director Adam Rothenberg was terrible at sports. Though part of an athletic family – his sisters played softball, figure skated, pole vaulted, and his father coached – he says he “couldn’t catch a ball to save his life.”

But Rothenberg, 31, found solace off the baseball diamond: “We had a piano in the house. After games, I’d play piano for hours. For me it was a way to differentiate myself from the rest of the family. To show my strengths.”

Coming full circle, the Northwestern University and Juilliard-educated Rothenberg is now at Arena Stage music directing a re-imagined production of “Damn Yankees,”that famed 1955 musical comedy h

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