Search results
One of the quintessential “Hey, let’s put on a show” musicals, which boasts one of the most beautiful scores ever written, by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, including such timeless standards as “The Lady is a Tramp”, “Where Or When”, “My Funny Valentine”, and “I Wish I were In Love Again”.
- Characters
Babes in Arms characters breakdowns including full...
- Videos
Babes in Arms video clips including performance examples....
- Context
It contains all the conventions of a musical comedy of that...
- Portrayals
Babes in Arms (Musical) Portrayals
- Quizzes
Test your knowledge about Babes in Arms with these fun and...
- Characters
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 when their actor parents go on the road for five months in an effort to earn ...
Boasting one of the best scores of Broadway’s Golden Age, Babes in Arms has seen success at such prestigious venues as the Goodspeed Opera House (featuring Andrea McArdle) in 1979, City Center in 1999, and at countless high schools, colleges and regional theatres across the country.
Babes in Arms was one of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's best shows it ran for 289 performances in the 1937 season and boasted such Rodgers&Hart classics as Johnny One Note, Way Out West,...
Skeptically, the Sheriff gives them one week to make a fortune by putting on the best show Long Island has ever seen (“ Babes in Arms” Reprise ). At the clubhouse, Ivor DeQuincy, a young Black dancer who performs with his older brother Irving, is shooting craps with his friend Beauregard, the white younger brother of the disagreeable Lee Calhoun.
In the Guthrie version, not much of the original 1937 “Babes” book remains beyond the central premise of a bunch of orphaned kids who decide to put on a show to save an abandoned Broadway ...
