Victory Canteen
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Victory Canteen is a musical comedy play with script by Milt Larsen and Bobby Lauher and song score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The play opened on January 27, 1971 at the Ivar Theatre and ran for seven months. The show featured former Mouseketeer Sherry Alberoni, famous 1940s sensation Patty Andrews, Laureen Yarnell (of Shields and Yarnell), Beverly Sanders, and [[Marcia Kramer], Patty Shayne, and Brian Avery. Also in the cast was Anson Williams of Happy Days fame as was KNX Radio Entertainment Reporter Tom Hatten. The follow-spot operator was KNX Traffic Reporter Doug Dunlap.
[edit] About the show
The show is a happy-go-lucky review of 1940s style music written by the Sherman Brothers. It was the send up for 1974's Broadway show Over Here! which also featured Patty Andrews as well as a songscore by the Shermans.
[edit] Songs
- Victory Canteen
- Happy Tomorrows
- Loose Lips (Sink Ships)
- Va-Va-Va-Veee (For Victory)
- Axe The Axis Polka
- My Window Full Of Stars
- Doughnuts
- L-O-V-E (They Just Can't Ration)
- Hawks!
- Let's Go Native
- South Sea Island Rhapsody
- Lafayette, We're Here
- We Two (Someday)
- Smoke 'Em Up, Smoke 'Em Up, Smoke 'Em Up!
