Cabin in the Sky

• Original Broadway Production (1940)
  New York, NY
• Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Production (1941)
  Los Angeles, CA
• Film Version (1943)
   
• Off-Broadway Revival (1964)
  New York, NY
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2003)
  New York, NY
• Encores! Production (2016)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• The General's Song
  • aka The General's Entrance [Title used in Encores! production]
• Pay Heed
• Taking a Chance on Love
• Cabin in the Sky
• Holy Unto the Lord
• Dem Bones
  • aka Dry Bones [Title used in Encores! production]
• Do What You Wanna Do
• Fugue
• My Old Virginia Home on the Nile
  • aka In My Old Virginia Home (On the River Nile) [Title used in Encores! production]
• Egyptian Ballet
  • aka Vision Ballet [no note]
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Love Turned the Light Out
• Lazy Steps
• Boogy Woogy
• Honey in the Honeycomb
• Savannah
• Dance

Cut prior to Broadway opening

• We'll Live All Over Again
• Little Papa Satan

Added after New York opening

• It's Not So Good to Be Bad
  • aka It's Not So Bad to Be Good [Title used in Encores! production]
  • aka Not So Bad to Be Good [no note]

Added to film version

• Little Black Sheep/Song of Invitation
  • aka Little Black Sheep [no note]
• Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe
  • aka Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe [no note]
• Dat Old Debbil Consequence
  • aka Consequences [no note]
• Going Up
• Things Ain't What They Used to Be
• Shine

Cut from 1943 film version

• Ain't It the Truth
  • aka Ain't It de Truth [no note]
• Some Folks Work
  • aka Is You Man or Mule? [no note]

Added to 1964 revival

• Wade in the Water
• Make Way
• The Man Upstairs
• Living It Up
• Not a Care in the World
• Gospel: Great Day

Added to Encores! Production

• God's Gonna Trouble the Water
• Café Dance
• The Storm

Based on the story "Little Joe" by Lynn Root.

Little Joe is killed in a knife fight. His wife Petunia, left behind, prays for his placement in heaven. Little Joe is granted a reprieve by God if he mends his ways.

• Little Joe (source material)