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Cabin In The Sky

Shows · Cabin In The Sky

The first major musical to play the Martin Beck Theatre (on 45th Street west of 8th Avenue), Cabin in the Sky was a parable of Southern Negro life with echoes of Ferenc Molnar’s Liliom (which would be turned into the musical Carousel ) and Marc Connelly’s The Green Pastures

Opened
1940
Performances
156
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Vernon DukeLyrics: John LatoucheBook: Lynn Root

Productions1 on Broadway

1940 Martin Beck Theatre Original. October 25, 1940 · George Balanchine, Albert Lewis 156 performances

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In the literature1 passages

WHAT?’S UP marked Balanchine’s second and final directing at-tempt; the first had been the more successful CABIN IN THE SKY [Duke: October 25, 1940]. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p396

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