Present Arms (musical)

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Present Arms
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Lorenz Hart
Book Herbert Fields
Productions 1928 Broadway

Present Arms is a Broadway musical comedy that opened April 26, 1928, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Herbert Fields. It was produced by Lew Fields with musical numbers stage by Busby Berkeley. It ran for 155 performances at the Lew Field’s Mansfield Theatre.

The show starred Charles King, Flora Le Breton and Busby 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"

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Rodgers and Hart musicals
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