Arms and the Girl (musical)

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] 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.