1950 Broadway musical
Pearl Bailey and Nanette Fabray as Connecticut and Jo
Arms and the Girl is a 1950 Broadway musical with a book by Herbert Fields , Dorothy Fields , and Rouben Mamoulian , music by Morton Gould , and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.[ 1] The show is based on the play The Pursuit of Happiness by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall .[ 2] It opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on February 2, 1950, and closed on May 27 after 134 performances.[ 1]
Premise
During the American Revolution ,[ 3] an American revolutionary named Jo, who lives in Connecticut, falls in love with a Hessian soldier.[ 4] Connecticut, a runaway slave who uses the name of whatever colony she is living in, is also involved.
Songs
Act l
A Girl With a Flame
That's What I Told Him Last Night
I Like It Here
That's My Fella
A Cow and a Plough and a Frau
Nothin' for Nothing'
He Will Tonight
Plantation in Philadelphia
You Kissed Me
Act ll
Don't Talk (reprise)
I'll Never Learn
There Must Be Something Better Than Love
She's Exciting
Mister Washington! Uncle George
A Cow and a Plough and a Frau (reprise) [ 1]
Cast
1950 Broadway[ 5]
Captain Aaron Kirkland
Florenz Ames
Thad Jennings
Seth Arnold
Comfort Kirkland
Lulu Belle Clarke
Colonel Mortimer Sherwood
John Conte
General Lucius Curtis
Clifford Dunstan
Jo Kirkland
Nanette Fabray
Franz
Georges Guétary
Prudence Kirkland
Eda Heinemann
General George Washington
Arthur Vinton
Abigail
Mimi Cabanne
Ben
Sterling Hall
Betsy
Joan Keenan
Connecticut
Pearl Bailey
David
Philip Rodd
John
Paul Fitzpatricks
Matthew
Joseph Caruso
Town Crier
William J. McCarthy
Militiaman
Peter Miceli
Drummer
Jerry Miller
Sergeant
Norman Weise
Sons of Liberty
Andy Aprea, Victor Young
Aides to General Curtis
Dan O'Brien, Robert Rippy
References