After The Curtain
The play earned the U.S. Army US$80,000 for Camp Upton's Community Building, though the army never had it built. Irving Berlin did not go to France with the rest of the 20th Infantry, 152nd Depot Brigade, but would be listed among other great songwriters and playwrights of the time, well up to the next great war.
The success of this musical led him to volunteer to do a similar revue during World War II, entitled This Is the Army. He also reprised Yaphank's most popular song, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" (which Berlin himself performed in both productions). Staged on Broadway, Army was such a smash, the military took it to London and Europe, and to the men fighting in the Pacific Theater. The show, as well as the fictionalized story of its production, was also turned into the 1943 motion picture This Is the Army. Yanks A Poppin, a show based on This Is the Army also played in the Pacific Theater.
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