Strike Up the Band

• S
  Original Broadway Production (1930)
  New York, NY
• S
  Encores! Concert (1998)
  New York, NY
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2012)
  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
    • a.k.a. Patriotic Rally
  • Patriotic Rally (Part II): This Could Go On for Years
  • If I Became the President
  • What's the Use of Hanging Around With You?
    • a.k.a. Hangin' Around With You
  • 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
    • a.k.a. March of the Swiss Soldiers
  • Official Resume
  • Ring a Ding a Ding Dong Dell

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• Cut during 1927 run

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

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• Cut prior to 1927 production

  • Seventeen and Twenty-One
    • a.k.a. 17 and 21
  • 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

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• Written for but cut from 1927 production

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

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Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• No demos listed.

Based on a previous version written by George S. Kaufman

"Soon" has some musical similarities to both "Stop! What is This Mischief You're Doing?" (refrain) and "Hoping That Someday You'd Care" (verse).