THE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts!
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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