Present Arms (Musical)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Present Arms is a Broadway musical comedy that opened April 26, 1928, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and 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. The show starred Charles King, Flora Le Breton and Busby Berkeley. A guy 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 ship wreck. Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 - December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals.