THTR 3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Yip Yip Yaphank, Pick Yourself Up, Ethel Merman
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Anything you can do - quasi love song. Wanted to see a play on broadway that focused on a powerful young female character. You don"t know where they came from ( little brothers and sisters ) Wrote music and lyrics for annie get your gun. Wrote 3 songs in 2 hours after reading the play. Go to places where people are fighting in wars. Built to have up to 300 servicemen on stage at a time. Earned 15 million dollars from army release fund. For going overseas and writing plays for servicemen to perform in to life their spirits during battle. First person to do this (it is done all the time now) Irving berlin has no place in american music; he is american music . Told her voice wasn"t good enough for movies. Thought her whole career was going to end. Too strong for movies (should be on stage) Dorothy wrote annie get your gun to star ethel merman.
