Strike Up the Band

...Garland appeared in multiple movies together, including the four included in this Warner Bros. DVD collection ($59.92): "Babes in Arms," "Strike Up the Band," "Girl Crazy" and "Babes on Broadway." Contemporary viewers may find some of the...

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...show" kids, Rooney and Garland appeared in many movies together, including the four in this Warner Bros. DVD collection: "Babes in Arms," "Strike Up the Band," "Girl Crazy" and "Babes on Broadway." Viewers may find some of the plotlines cheesy,...

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...York series that focuses on songs from the hit shows of specific years. The years featured in San Mateo will be 1930 ("Girl Crazy," "Strike Up the Band," "The New Yorkers") and '64 ("Funny Girl," "Hello, Dolly!" and "Fiddler on the...

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...song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was written for the 1927 musical ''Strike Up the Band '', where it formed part of a satire on war and militaristic music. Although the musical was not successful, the title...

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...classic musicals and plays at low cost. For instance, this year the Conservatory will stage productions of "Sweet Charity,'' "Rent,'' and "Strike Up the Band. '' If there is an adventurous teenager in your household, the Institute of...

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...that he assured members of the audience they had never heard before -- an unpublished song the composer had cut from the 1927 musical Strike Up the Band. He ended with an arrangement for solo piano of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. He...

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Strike Up the Band is a musical with a book by Morrie Ryskind, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. During its original 1927 pre-Broadway run, the political satire closed after a Saturday night performance in Philadelphia,...

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...college football song compilations. Team, Hear Our Song, simply known as "Team" has words by Don Davis, music by Harry Fillmore. Strike Up the Band for UCLA was another leitmotif of the school teams from the time it was donated to the...

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...Judy Garland Collection: Ultimate Collector's Edition (Unrated) This five-disc set contains "Babes in Arms," "Babes on Broadway," "Strike Up the Band" and "Girl Crazy." Extras include "Private Screenings With Mickey Rooney," an interview...

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...as if it is paying homage to those '30s musical comedies by the Gershwins and Rodgers and Hart, breezy shows like "Babes in Arms" and "Strike Up the Band" that didn't worry much about being mistaken for art. "Scoundrels' " heart is in something...

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