STRIKE UP THE BAND (1930)
Composer: George
Gershwin
Lyricist: Ira Gershwin
Opened: January 14,
1930, Times Square Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 191
Note: Only recordings of numbers not found on the 2010 studio cast album, PS Classics PS-1100, are noted below. A studio cast album of the original 1927 version of the show (which closed out of town) was recorded in 1990 and released as CD/Elektra 7559-79273-2.
I Want To Be A War Bride (cut after opening):
1. Gershwin Rarities, Walden (M)
303 (Louise Carlyle with the John Morris Trio) [reissued as CD/Harbinger HCD
1603]
March Of The Swiss Soldiers
(inst.):
1. Instrumental Selections From
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book, 45EP/Verve
EPV-5069 (orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle) [also 45/Verve
V-10194X45]
Unrecorded
Material:
Finaletto Act II, Scene 1
(dropped during rehearsals; fragment survives)
Finaletto Act II, Scene 1
(revised version) (cut before opening; lyrics lost)
Nursie, Nursie
(cut from the 1927 version of the score; much of the music is missing)
Thanks To You (not
used)
There Was Never Such A Charming War (not used; lyric adapted from
"Oh, This Is Such A Lovely War" from STRIKE UP THE BAND (1927))