Edited sentence: (Fosse can be seen partnered with her in the original mambo duet "Who's Got the Pain.In the story, Verdon's Lola is a woman who was once "the ugliest woman in Providence, Rhode Island" but sold herself to the Devil to be the beauty we see in the play.Now she is dead.She grew up as a only child.She was a magician when she was younger.She would forever be identified with her role as the vampish Lola, and it was on this show that she first worked with Bob Fosse as her choreographer.That reputation solidified during her next show, George Abbott's Damn Yankees (1955), based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.The Devil (played by a wryly comic Ray Walston) convinces a baseball fan to sell his soul so he can play for the Washington Senators and win the league pennant in the playoffs.The Devil then employs the seductive Lola to keep the guy ("Joe") from escaping his grasp.The hitch is that Lola falls for the guy and has to choose between her love for him and her beauty pact with the Devil.The musical ran for 1019 performances.Verdon won another Tony and went to Hollywood to repeat her role in the 1958 movie version Damn Yankees, memorably singing "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets".With her short shock of flaming red hair, exquisite body of a pin-up girl and a guileless vulnerability on stage and off, Verdon was considered the best dancer on Broadway in the 1950s and 1960s