Strike Up the Band

• Original Broadway Production (1930)
  New York, NY
• California Music Theatre Production (1988)
  Pasadena, CA
• Goodspeed Production (1995)
  East Haddam, CT
• Encores! Concert (1998)
  New York, NY
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2013)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Fletcher's American Chocolate Choral Society
• I Mean to Say
• Typical Self-Made American
• Soon
• A Man of High Degree
• The Unofficial Spokesman
• Patriotic Rally (Part I): Three Cheers for the Union
  • aka Patriotic Rally [no note]
• Patriotic Rally (Part II): This Could Go On for Years
• If I Became the President
• What's the Use of Hanging Around With You?
  • aka Hangin' Around With You [no note]
• Stop! What Is This Mischief You're Doing
• Jim, Consider What You Are Doing
• Strike Up the Band!
• In the Rattle of the Battle
• Military Dancing Drill
• Mademoiselle in New Rochelle
• I've Got a Crush on You
• How About a Boy Like Me?
• Soldier's March
  • aka March of the Swiss Soldiers [no note]
• Official Resume
• Ring a Ding a Ding Dong Dell

Cut during 1927 run

• Sing, Carry On!
• Nursie, Nursie
• Come-Look-At-The-War Choral Society

Cut prior to 1927 production

• Seventeen and Twenty-One
  • aka 17 and 21 [no note]
• Meadow Serenade
• The Man I Love
• Yankee Dodole Rhythm
• Jim, How Could You Do Such a Thing?
• Oh, This is Such a Lovely War
• Hopin' That Some Day You'd Care
• Homeward Bound
• The Girl I Love
• The War That Ended the War

Written for but cut from 1927 production

• I Want to Be a War Bride
• There Never Was Such a Charming War
• Thanks to You

Based on a previous version written by George S. Kaufman

The opening number had a minor title change. In 1927 they used the word "Cheese," however they felt in 1929 that "Chocolate" would be more popular.