Babes in Arms

• Original Broadway Production (1937)
  New York, NY
• Film Version (1939)
• Equity Library Theatre Revival (1967)
  New York, NY
• Queens County Revival (1976)
  Queens, NY
• Closed on the road (1985)
  Tarrytown, NY
• Concert Revival (1989)
  New York, NY
• Encores! Concert (1999)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Where or When
• Babes in Arms
• I Wish I Were in Love Again
• All Dark People
  • aka All Dark People Are Light on Their Feet [no note]
  • aka Light on their Feet [no note]
• Way Out West
• My Funny Valentine
• Johnny One-Note
• Johnny One-Note Ballet
  • aka Ballet: Johnny One-Note [no note]
• Imagine
• All at Once
• Peter's Journey Ballet
  • aka Ballet: Peter's Journey [no note]
  • aka Peter's Journey [no note]
• The Lady is a Tramp
• You Are So Fair

Added to 1939 film version

• Good Morning
• I Like Opera, I Like Swing
• You Are My Lucky Star
• Figaro
• Broadway Rhythm
• I Cried for You
• Minstrel Show: Daddy Was a Minstrel Man
• Camptown Races
  • aka De Camptown Races [no note]
• Oh! Susanna
  • aka Oh, Suzannah [no note]
• Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider
• On Moonlight Bay
• I'm Just Wild About Harry
• God's Country

Added to 1979 revival

• Cause We Got Cake
• I Like to Recognize the Tune

Added to 1985 Tarrytown production

• Mountain Greenery
• Manhattan
• You're Nearer
• I Didn't Know What Time It Was

Added to 2002 Goodspeed Production

• Blue Moon
• The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
• With a Song in My Heart
• You Took Advantage of Me
• I Gotta Get Back to New York

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Original/Studio Cast (1937)
  Wynn Murray , Ray Heatherton , Edgar Fairchild , Adam Carroll , Teddy Lynch
• Studio Cast (1951)
  Mardi Bayne , Jack Cassidy
• Studio Cast (1953)
  Lisa Kirk , William Tabbert , Sheila Bond
• Studio Cast (1958)
  The Four Lads
• Studio Cast (not listed yet)
  Artie Wayne

The original version of Babes in Arms 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 is drastically changed, the orchestrations changed, and the dance numbers eliminated.