Arms and the Girl is a 1950 Broadway musical with a book by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, and Rouben Mamoulian, music by Morton Gould, and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. The show is based on the play The Pursuit of Happiness by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall. It opened at the 46th Street Theatre on February 2, 1950, and closed on May 27 after 134 performances.
Premise During the American Revolution, an American revolutionary named Jo, who lives in Connecticut, falls in love with a Hessian soldier. Connecticut, a runaway slave who uses the name of whatever colony she is living in, is also involved.
Songs
Act l
A Girl With a Flame That's What I Told Him Last Night I Like It Here That's My Fella A Cow and a Plough and a Frau Nothin' for Nothing''' He Will Tonight Plantation in Philadelphia You Kissed Me Act ll
Don't Talk (reprise) I'll Never Learn There Must Be Something Better Than Love She's Exciting Mister Washington! Uncle George A Cow and a Plough and a Frau (reprise)''
Cast +1950 BroadwayCaptain Aaron KirklandFlorenz AmesThad JenningsSeth ArnoldComfort KirklandLulu Belle ClarkeColonel Mortimer SherwoodJohn ConteGeneral Lucius CurtisClifford DunstanJo KirklandNanette FabrayFranzGeorges GuétaryPrudence KirklandEda HeinemannGeneral George WashingtonArthur VintonAbigailMimi CabanneBenSterling HallBetsyJoan KeenanConnecticutPearl BaileyDavidPhilip RoddJohnPaul FitzpatricksMatthewJoseph CarusoTown CrierWilliam J. McCarthyMilitiamanPeter MiceliDrummerJerry MillerSergeantNorman WeiseSons of LibertyAndy Aprea, Victor YoungAides to General CurtisDan O'Brien, Robert Rippy
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