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Arms and the Girl

Opened 1950

134 performances

Musical, Golden Age

Arms and the Girl
Photo by Vandamm, New York

Arms and the Girl is a 1950 Broadway musical with a book by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, and Rouben Mamoulian, music by Morton Gould, and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. The show is based on the play The Pursuit of Happiness by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall.

Music
Morton Gould
Lyrics
Dorothy Fields
Book
Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, and Rouben Mamoulian

Productions2 on Broadway

1916
Fulton TheatreBroadway Original, opened September 27, 1916, directed by Paul Dickey
77 performances
1950
46th Street TheatreBroadway Revival, opened February 2, 1950, directed by Rouben Mamoulian
134 performances

Songs14 songs

A Girl with a Flame, That’s What I Told Him Last Night, I Like It Here, That’s My Fella, A Cow and a Plough and a Frau, Nothin’ for Nothin’, He Will Tonight, Don’t Talk, Plantation in Philadelphia, You Kissed Me, I’ll Never Learn, There Must Be Something Better Than Love, She’s Exciting, Mister Washington! Uncle George

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