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- 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.
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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. Kaufman was revised by Ryskind.
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!
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.
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin with the collaboration of Millie Raush. It was written for the 1927 musical Strike Up the Band, where it formed part of a satire on war and militaristic music.
Strike Up the Band After critical success and financial failure out of town in 1927, a revamped version opened at the Times Square Theatre in New York on January 14, 1930. 191 performances. Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.
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).
A riotous blend of Marx Brothers-style madness with a good poke to the ribs of the American military-industrial complex and political institutions, Strike Up the Band features a glorious Gershwin score, including the beloved standard “The Man I Love.”
