Present Arms (musical)

Present Arms
Sheet music cover (cropped)
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, and lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It is based on the 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 Fields' Mansfield Theatre, which today is known as the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Present Arms was filmed in 1930 with Irene Dunne, with its title changed to Leathernecking. The film is presumed lost.

Plot

The show starred Charles King, Flora Le Breton and Busby Berkeley. A man 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 shipwreck.

Songs

Act One

"Tell It to the Marines"
"You Took Advantage of Me"
"Do I Hear You (Saying I Love You)?"
"A Kiss for Cinderella"
"Is It the Uniform?"
"Crazy Elbows"

Act Two

"Down By the Sea"
"I'm a Fool for You (I'm a Fool, Little One)"
"Blue Ocean Blues"
"Hawaii"
"Kohala, Welcome"

External links

Present Arms at the Internet Broadway Database
Overview of show

Rodgers and Hart

Musicals	The Garrick Gaieties Dearest Enemy The Girl Friend Peggy-Ann A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms Ever Green Simple Simon America's Sweetheart Jumbo On Your Toes Babes in Arms I'd Rather Be Right The Boys from Syracuse I Married an Angel Too Many Girls Higher and Higher Pal Joey By Jupiter

Songs	"Manhattan" "Mountain Greenery" "Here in My Arms" "Blue Room" "My Heart Stood Still" "Thou Swell" "To Keep My Love Alive" "You Took Advantage of Me" "With a Song in My Heart" "A Ship Without a Sail" "Dancing on the Ceiling" "Ten Cents a Dance" "He Was Too Good to Me" "I've Got Five Dollars" "Isn't It Romantic?" "Lover" "Mimi" "Blue Moon" "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "My Romance" "Little Girl Blue" "There's a Small Hotel" "Glad to Be Unhappy" "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" "Where or When" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "My Funny Valentine" "Johnny One Note" "The Lady Is a Tramp" "Have You Met Miss Jones?" "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" "Spring Is Here" "Falling in Love with Love" "This Can't Be Love" "Sing for Your Supper" "I Like to Recognize the Tune" "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" "Give It Back to the Indians" "You're Nearer" "It Never Entered My Mind" "I Could Write a Book" "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" "Ev'rything I've Got" "Wait till You See Her"

Busby Berkeley: Choreographer and director

Broadway pre-Hollywood	Holka Polka (chor, 1925) The Wild Rose (chor, 1926) Lady Do (chor, 1927) A Connecticut Yankee (chor, 1927) White Eagle (chor, 1927) Present Arms (chor, 1928) Earl Carroll's Vanities (1928) (chor, 1928) Good Boy (chor, 1928) Rainbow (chor, 1928) Hello, Daddy (chor, 1928) Pleasure Bound (chor, 1929) A Night in Venice (chor, 1929) Broadway Nights (chor, 1929) The Street Singer (dir & prod, 1929) Nine-Fifteen Revue (chor, 1930) The International Review (chor, 1930) Sweet and Low (chor, 1930)

1930s	Whoopee! (chor, 1930) Kiki (chor, 1931) Palmy Days (chor, 1931) Flying High (chor, 1931) Sky Devils (chor, 1932) Girl Crazy (chor, 1932) Night World (chor, 1932) Bird of Paradise (chor, 1932) The Kid From Spain (chor, 1932) 42nd Street (chor, 1933) Gold Diggers of 1933 (chor, 1933) She Had to Say Yes (dir, 1933) Footlight Parade (chor, 1933) Roman Scandals (chor, 1933) Dames (dir mus nmbrs, 1934) Fashions of 1934 (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1934) Wonder Bar (chor, 1934) Gold Diggers of 1935 (dir & chor, 1935) Bright Lights (dir, 1935) I Live for Love (dir & chor, 1935) In Caliente (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1935) Stars Over Broadway (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1935) Stage Struck (dir, 1936) Varsity Show (dir finale, 1937) The Singing Marine (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1937) Gold Diggers of 1937 (dir mus nmbrs, 1937) The Go Getter (dir, 1937) Hollywood Hotel (dir & chor, 1937) Men Are Such Fools (dir, 1938) Gold Diggers in Paris (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1938) Garden of the Moon (dir, 1938) Comet Over Broadway (dir, 1938) Broadway Serenade (dir finale, 1939) They Made Me a Criminal (dir, 1939) Fast and Furious (dir, 1939) Babes in Arms (dir, 1939) The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow's dance-cut, 1939)

1940s	Forty Little Mothers (dir, 1940) Strike Up The Band (dir, 1940) Blonde Inspiration (dir, 1941) Lady Be Good (dir mus nmbrs, 1941) Ziegfeld Girl (dir mus nmbrs, 1941) Babes on Broadway (dir, 1941) For Me and My Gal (dir, 1942) Calling All Girls (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1942) Born to Sing (dir finale, 1942) Cabin in the Sky (dir "Shine" seq, 1943) The Gang's All Here (dir & chor, 1943) Three Cheers for the Girls (chor, 1943) Girl Crazy (dir "I Got Rhythm", 1943) All Star Musical Revue (dir mus nmbrs, 1945) Cinderella Jones (dir, 1946) Romance on the High Seas (chor, 1948) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (dir, 1949)

1950s	Annie Get Your Gun (dir-cut, 1950) Big Town (dir TV series, 1950) Weeks With Love (chor, 1950) Call Me Mister (chor, 1951) Ticket to Broadway (chor, 1951) Million Dollar Mermaid (chor, 1952) Small Town Girl (chor, 1953) Easy to Love (chor, 1953) Rose Marie (chor, 1954)

1960s	Billy Rose's Jumbo (chor & dir 2nd unit, 1962)

Herbert Fields

Books	Dearest Enemy (1925) The Girl Friend (1926) Peggy-Ann (1926) Hit the Deck (1927) A Connecticut Yankee (1927) Present Arms (1928) Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) The New Yorkers (1930) America's Sweetheart (1931) Pardon My English (1933) Du Barry Was a Lady (1939) Panama Hattie (1940) Let's Face It! (1941) Something for the Boys (1943, also directed) Mexican Hayride (1944) Up in Central Park (1945, written by) Annie Get Your Gun (1946) Arms and the Girl (1950) By the Beautiful Sea (1954)

Family	Lew Fields (father) Dorothy Fields (sister) Joseph Fields (brother)

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