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Yip Yip Yaphank

Yip Yip Yaphank

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An all-soldier revue created at Camp Upton during World War I, featuring 300 enlisted men performing comic sketches and songs about military life. The show follows a recruit's journey from bewildered civilian to drilled soldier, spoofing army regulations and the boredom of camp life.

Opened
1918
Performances
32
Type
Revue
Era
Early
Music: Irving BerlinLyrics: Irving Berlin

Productions1 on Broadway

1918 Century Theatre Original. August 19, 1918 · William Smith 32 performances

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In the literature29 passages

Having already written songs for the all-soldier show, Yip Yip Yaphank, during World War I, Irving Berlin followed up with songs for the all-soldier show, This is the Army, during World War II. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p118

Composer Irving Berlin also starred, and he reprised “Oh, How I Hate to Get up in the Morning,” which he first sang in Yip Yip Yaphank (8/19/18). book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p108

In 1917, Berlin enlisted in the army during World War I and staged a musical revue, Yip Yip Yaphank. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p23

so the footlights weren’t exactly strange to him when he next appeared in Yip Yip Yaphank during World War I, the first Music Box Revue (1921), and This Is The Army (1942). book:revue-a-nostalgic-reprise-of-the-great-broadway-period-baral-robert-author-1st-e#p154

Yip Yip Yaphank evolved during his hitch in the United States Army as a ser¬ regiment—he penned nine songs, including “Mandy” which went into the Ziegfeld Fol¬ lies of 1919, and “Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning” (Gene Buck said this number was not sung in the series, but cover credit includes the Ziegfeld listi… book:revue-a-nostalgic-reprise-of-the-great-broadway-period-baral-robert-author-1st-e#p155

It is especially interesting to compare this 1942 show with the 1918 Yip Yip Yaphank (thirty-two performances only). Qm. Sgt. Major William Bauman was interlocutor for the Camp Upton minstrel show which opened the revue. book:revue-a-nostalgic-reprise-of-the-great-broadway-period-baral-robert-author-1st-e#p214

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