- Present Arms (musical)
Infobox Musical
name= Present Arms
subtitle=
caption= Sheet music cover (cropped)
music=Richard Rodgers
lyrics=Lorenz Hart
book=Herbert Fields
basis=
productions= 1928 Broadway
awards="Present Arms" is a Broadway musical comedy that opened
April 26 ,1928 , with music byRichard Rodgers , lyrics byLorenz Hart and book byHerbert Fields . It was produced byLew Fields with musical numbers stage byBusby Berkeley . It ran for 155 performances at theLew Fields' Mansfield Theatre .The show starred
Charles King ,Flora Le Breton andBusby Berkeley . A guy from Brooklyn is serving as a buck private in Pearl Harbor. he flirts with an English Peer’s daughter; however, she is being pursued by a German, who raises pineapples in Hawaii. The Brooklynite pretends to be a Captain in order to make an impression, but he is found out, booted out, and loses out on the girl, until he proves himself in a ship wreck.Some of the songs from the show are:
* "
You Took Advantage of Me "
* "A Kiss for Cinderella"
* "Down By the Sea"
* "Blue Ocean Blues"
* "I'm a Fool, Little One"
* "Crazy Elbows"External links
*
* [http://www.lorenzhart.org/arms.htm Overview of show]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.