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Cabin In The Sky

Opened 1940

156 performances

Musical, Early

Ethel Waters, who was in the 1940 production.
Ethel Waters, who was in the 1940 production. Film screenshot

The first major musical to play the Martin Beck Theatre (on 45th Street west of 8th Avenue), Cabin in the Sky was a parable of Southern Negro life with echoes of Ferenc Molnar’s Liliom (which would be turned into the musical Carousel ) and Marc Connelly’s The Green Pastures

Music
Vernon Duke
Lyrics
John Latouche
Book
Lynn Root

Productions1 on Broadway

1940
Martin Beck TheatreBroadway Original, opened October 25, 1940, directed by George Balanchine, Albert Lewis
156 performances

Songs6 songs

Taking a Chance on Love, Cabin in the Sky, Love Turned the Light Out, Honey in the Honeycomb, My Old Virginia Home (on the River Nile), Do What You Wanna Do

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