About: Babes in Arms

An Entity of Type: movie, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

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 some money by reviving vaudeville. Several songs in Babes in Arms became pop standards, including the title song, "Where or When", "My Funny Valentine", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Johnny One Note" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again".

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • 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. Rodgers und Hart brachten das damals populäre „Hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show!“ Musical-Thema an den Broadway, dass wenig später durch den Regisseur Busby Berkeley in verschiedenen Hollywood-Filmmusicals mit Judy Garland und Mickey Rooney als jugendliches Paar perfektioniert wurde. Die 1937er Besetzung von Babes in Arms kam gänzlich ohne große Bekanntheiten aus, die meisten Darsteller waren unter zwanzig Jahre alt. Die Zeitschrift Variety prophezeite der Show einen Misserfolg, weil weder Fleisch, tanzende Mädchen, Plüsch noch Pailletten zu sehen wären. Sie erreichte jedoch 289 Aufführungen, was für die 1930er Jahre sehr erfolgreich war. Eine den moderneren Verhältnissen angepasste Neufassung aus dem Jahre 1959 stammt von George Oppenheimer. (de)
  • 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 some money by reviving vaudeville. Several songs in Babes in Arms became pop standards, including the title song, "Where or When", "My Funny Valentine", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Johnny One Note" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again". The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley. Its radically revised plot retained only two songs from the original stage version—"Where or When" and "Babes in Arms". The film is credited with popularizing the "kids putting on a musical for charity" trope. The original version had strong political overtones with discussions of Nietzsche, a Communist character, and two African-American youths who are victims of racism. In 1959 George Oppenheimer created a "sanitized, de-politicized rewrite" which is now the most frequently performed version. In the new version, the young people are trying to save a local summer stock theatre from being demolished, not trying to avoid being sent to a work farm. The sequence of the songs and orchestration are changed drastically, and the dance numbers eliminated. The sanitized version was the only one available for performance until 1998 when the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music presented the original version (with a few race references slightly re-edited). (en)
dbo:author
dbo:lyrics
dbo:musicBy
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 145622 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 16777 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1107229360 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:book
  • Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (en)
dbp:caption
  • Original Broadway Logo (en)
dbp:lyrics
dbp:music
dbp:name
  • Babes in Arms (en)
dbp:productions
  • 1937 (xsd:integer)
  • 1939 (xsd:integer)
  • 1976 (xsd:integer)
  • 1985 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:wordnet_type
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • 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 some money by reviving vaudeville. Several songs in Babes in Arms became pop standards, including the title song, "Where or When", "My Funny Valentine", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Johnny One Note" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again". (en)
  • 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. Rodgers und Hart brachten das damals populäre „Hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show!“ Musical-Thema an den Broadway, dass wenig später durch den Regisseur Busby Berkeley in verschiedenen Hollywood-Filmmusicals mit Judy Garland und Mickey Rooney als jugendliches Paar perfektioniert wurde. (de)
rdfs:label
  • Babes in Arms (en)
  • Babes in Arms (de)
owl:sameAs
skos:closeMatch
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Babes in Arms (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License