Yank! gets its title from Yank Magazine, a World War II publication which grew to become the most widely-read and most popular magazine in the history of the U.S. Army. A love song to Hollywood’s “it takes one of every kind” platoon flicks and to 1940s Broadway, Yank! tells the story of a war reporter named Stu and an army private named Mitch, who fall in love and struggle to survive in a time and place where the odds are stacked against them. Intelligent and impassioned, suffused with songs in swing, big band and boogie-woogie styles, the show explores the stories that don’t get told in wartime, and how WWII became a great catalyst in bringing gay men and women together.