Babes in Arms
Shows · Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms is a 1937 coming-of-age musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and book by Rodgers and Hart. It concerns a group of small-town Long Island teenagers who put on a show to avoid being sent to a work farm by the town sheriff.
- Opened
- 1937
- Performances
- 289
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1937 | Shubert Theatre Original. April 14, 1937 · Robert Sinclair | 289 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 6 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
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1 passage naming Babes in Arms, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Rodgers wrote many of his best songs in the years before and after this golden period (including the SOUTH PACIFIC [April 7, 1949] score). A close look at the theatre music of Richard Rodgers shows how very important and enduring his accomplishments, innovations and songs were. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p229
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