1926 — 2026
One hundred years ago, Jerold Rosenberg was born in the East Bronx to Russian immigrant parents. He would become Jerry Ross — and in twenty-nine years, he would write the music and lyrics that audiences are still singing today.
This is his centennial year. And it’s a big one.
The best way to celebrate a songwriter is to hear his songs. These are the original Broadway cast recordings — the way audiences first heard them in the 1950s.
The Pajama Game — Original Broadway Cast (1954)
Damn Yankees — Original Broadway Cast (1955)
Rags to Riches — Tony Bennett
This past fall, Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. staged a thrilling new revival of Damn Yankees — newly adapted by Will Power and Doug Wright, with additional lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo. The Washington Post named it one of the Top 10 plays and musicals of 2025.
That production is now headed to Broadway. In Jerry Ross’s centennial year, his music will return to the stage where it all began.
More details to come as they are announced.
“My Father Would Have Been 100 Today” — a personal essay by Janie Ross Coulter, Jerry’s daughter, published March 9, 2026.
Click Here to read the full essay.