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Beat the Band

Opened 1942

68 performances

Musical, Early

Elaine Stritch, who was in the 1942 production. Allan warren

Beat the Band is a musical quiz show heard on NBC radio from 1940 to 1944 in two distinctly different series. The program popularized the show business catch phrase, "Give me a little traveling music", often uttered on TV a decade later by Jackie Gleason.

Music: Johnny Green
Lyrics: George Marion Jr.
Book: George Abbott & George Marion Jr.

Productions1 on Broadway

1942

46th Street TheatreBroadway Original, opened October 14, 1942, directed by George Abbott

68 performances

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