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Strike Up The Band
Book by
George S. Kaufman
Music by
George Gershwin
Lyrics by
Ira Gershwin
Two Acts, Book Musical, Rated G
1927 Version (the cheese version)
although songs can be interpolated from the 1930 version (the chocolate version)
Horace J. Fletcher, proud owner of the Fletcher American Cheese Co., outraged when Switzerland protests a tariff on imported cheese, convinces the U.S. government to declare a war, financed by himself and dubbed “The Horace J. Fletcher Memorial War.” When his daughter announces her love for Jim Townsend, a newspaperman who has publicly criticized both the war and the quality of milk going into his cheese, Fletcher drafts Townsend and sends him off to war – room and board provided by the Swiss Hotel Owners Association at a modest rate. Everything ends in patriotic triumph with the lovers reunited, Townsend a hero and a new war brewing with Russia over a tariff on caviar!
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The initial production of Putting It Together was devised by Julia MacKenzie and performed in Oxford, England, starring Diana Rigg.
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