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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 ...
Babes in Arms ist ein Musical mit der Musik von Richard Rodgers und Texten von Lorenz Hart. Das Buch wurde ebenfalls von Rodgers und Hart geschrieben. Choreografiert wurde die Show von George Balanchine. Die Uraufführung fand am 14. April 1937 im Shubert Theatre in New York statt.
Babes in Arms: Directed by Busby Berkeley. With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee. A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback.
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.
ACT ONE. At an actors’ colony in Seaport, Long Island during the Great Depression, two married couples hurriedly complete their packing for a five-month vaudeville tour. Promising to send money, they say goodbye to their sons, Val LaMar and Marshall Blackstone, who are left alone with a mere $1.65 between them.
Babes in Arms plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.
Starring 16-year-old Judy Garland and 19-year-old Mickey Rooney, the film established the “let’s-put-on-a-show” storyline that became a film trope for decades. A box office hit, Babes in Arms grossed over $3 million worldwide. Learn more about the 1939 Motion Picture of Babes in Arms at the Official Rodgers & Hammerstein website.
