In case you missed the Encores! concert version in 1998 or the 1995 Goodspeed Opera House mounting in Connecticut, Musicals Tonight!’s bare-bones concert presentation delivers a respectable hint of what “Strike Up the Band” must have seemed like some 85 years ago when it debuted in Philadelphia. With music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and script by George S. Kaufman, it offered songs …
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:22PM on March 13, 2013