Strike Up the Band
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Strike Up the Band is a 1927 musical with a book by Morrie Ryskind, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin. It first ran as a satirical show in Philadelphia that year, unsuccessfully, and on Broadway in 1930 after the original book by George S.
- Opened
- 1930
- Performances
- 191
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1930 | Times Square Theatre Original. January 14, 1930 · Alexander Leftwich | 191 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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5 passages naming Strike Up the Band, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
*‘The Man I Love’—cut; also used in STRIKE UP THE BAND (First) [August 29, 1927] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p147
SMARTY started its pre-Broadway tryout—immediately after the STRIKE UP THE BAND (First Version) [August 29, 1927] debacle—with grave problems. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p153
With a new cast and heavily revised score, STRIKE UP THE BAND was the first hit of the Thirties. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p156
But SMARTY—like STRIKE UP THE BAND [1927] [August 29, 1927}—faced grave tryout troubles. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p97
Hoping to salvage STRIKE UP THE BAND despite its quick failure in 1927, producer Edgar Selwyn asked the authors for a friendlier, less-bitter rewrite. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p99
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