Arms and the Girl (musical)

{{Infobox musical|name=Arms and the Girl|book=Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, and Rouben Mamoulian|music=Morton Gould|lyrics=Dorothy Fields|basis=The Pursuit of Happiness by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall|premiere_date=February 2, 1950|premiere_location=Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York City|setting=During the American Revolution}}

File:Pearl_Bailey_Nanette_Fabray_Arms_and_the_Girl_1950.jpg 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.{{Cite web |title=Arms and the Girl (Broadway, Richard Rodgers Theatre, 1950) |url=https://playbill.com/production/arms-and-the-girl-46th-street-theatre-vault-0000003123 |access-date=10 February 2023 |website=Playbill}} The show is based on the play The Pursuit of Happiness by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall.{{Cite web |title=Arms and the Girl - 1950 Broadway Musical: Tickets & Info |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/Arms-and-the-Girl-3270.html |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=Broadway World}} It opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on February 2, 1950, and closed on May 27 after 134 performances.

Premise

During the American Revolution,{{Cite news |last=Atkinson |first=Brooks |date=1950-02-03 |title=FIRST NIGHT AT THE THEATRE; 'Arms and the Girl,' a Musical Show About Colonial Times, Put On by Theatre Guild |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/02/03/archives/first-night-at-the-theatre-arms-and-the-girl-a-musical-show-about.html |access-date=2023-02-10 |issn=0362-4331}} an American revolutionary named Jo, who lives in Connecticut, falls in love with a Hessian soldier.{{Cite web |last=Dale |first=Michael |title=Before HAMILTON, Before 1776: Three Revolutionary Broadway Musicals |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Before-HAMILTON-Before-1776-Three-Revolutionary-Broadway-Musicals-20160623 |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}} 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)

Cast

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!1950 Broadway{{Cite web |title=ARMS AND THE GIRL - CAST |url=https://playbill.com/personlistpage/person-list?production=00000150-aea2-d936-a7fd-eef6cade0001&type=op#cc |access-date=10 February 2023 |website=Playbill}}

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