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If Strike Up The Band isn't exactly let's put on a show, it still is let's put on a concert and Mickey and Judy do have some shtick to perform, their Gay Nineties spoof is quite good.
Oct 30, 1995 · “Strike Up the Band” is one of the most Gilbert & Sullivan of all the Gershwins’ musicals, replete with comparatively gentle satire verging on the brink of spoof and a number of fast patter songs.
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. Kaufman was revised by Ryskind.
First up is a lively and faithful hour-long Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Strike Up the Band that was broadcast on October 28, 1940. Though it strangely omits the title song (and abbreviates...
Strike Up the Band centers around a cheese factory that’s threatened by a trade dispute with Switzerland. The plot follows the ambitious and patriotic owner, Horace J. Fletcher, who proposes the idea of starting a war with Switzerland to boost the American cheese industry.
When you add in two pairs of star-crossed lovers, an overbearing mother, a suspicious government official, and a strange man who keeps popping up at random times, this 1920's political satire is a thoroughly cheesy romp!
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The film begins with George bantering with the show's comedic stars Clark and McCullough. The songs, in abbreviated rehearsal renditions, are "Hangin' Around with You," "Strike Up The Band" (buck dance), "Mademoiselle in New Rochelle" and "Strike Up The Band" (piano solo).
