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- Virginia Karns, as Mother Goose, sings it at the beginning of the 1934 film, starring the comedy duo Laurel & Hardy; Dennis Day sings it in a 1955 TV movie; and Tommy Sands and Annette Funicello perform it in the 1961 Disney adaptation.
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Written by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, this whimsical song about a magical land filled with toys for girls and boys debuted in the 1903 operetta Babes In Toyland, a popular Christmas-themed extravaganza with a cast of Mother Goose characters.
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Toyland, toy land Little girl and boy land While you dwell...
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Babes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough, which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a musical extravaganza.
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Dec 12, 2011 · In this charming fantasy, Walt’s first live-action musical, all of Mother Goose Village is celebrating two of its most beloved citizens, lovely Mary Contrary and handsome Tom Piper, who are about to wed—only the dastardly Barnaby seeks to stop their happiness.
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After a three-month tryout beginning on June 17, 1903, at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, followed by a tour to several East Coast cities, the original New York production opened on October 13, 1903, at the Majestic Theatre at Columbus Circle in Manhattan (where The Wizard of Oz had played) and closed after 192 performances on March 19, 1904. It ...
Alan, nephew of BarnabyJane, his sisterUncle Barnaby, a rich miser in love with Contrary MaryThe Widow Piper, a widow with 14 childrenHerbert's Victor Herbert Orchestra recorded selections from Babes in Toyland in 1911–1912 for the Victor Talking Machine Company as single releases, including "March of the Toys", "The Toymaker's Shop" and "The Military Ball". Decca Records recorded ten selections from the score (on five 10-inch 78-RPM records) in 1944. The recording featured Kenny...
Children's book
A 1904 children's book of the same name by Glen MacDonough and Anna Alice Chapin, with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts, is based on the operetta.
Films
Laurel and Hardy's 1934 film version of Babes in Toyland (reissued as March of the Wooden Soldiers) includes only five of Herbert's songs and almost none of the original book. It does include many of the original characters, although Laurel and Hardy's were new to the story. It features Felix Knight as Tom-Tom, Charlotte Henry as Little Bo-Peep and Henry Brandon as Silas Barnaby. It does not interpolate songs by any other composers. Walt Disney's Technicolor 1961 film production starred Bolge...
Television
Between 1950 and 1960, there were at least three television versions of Babes in Toyland, all broadcast during the Christmas season. A 1950 version starred Edith Fellows, James Gregory and Robert Weede; Dennis King played a new villain called Dr. Electron. A 1954 adaptation, restaged in 1955, starred Jo Sullivan (1954) and Barbara Cook (1955) as Jane, and featured Wally Cox as Grumio, Dave Garroway as Santa, Dennis Day as Tommy, Karin Wolfe as Ann (Jane's little sister) and Jack E. Leonard as...
For assistants they have Charlotte Henry as the timorous Bo-Peep, Henry Kleinbach as the terrible old Barnaby, Florence Roberts as the Widow Peep, Felix Knight as the lovable Tom-Tom, and Virginia Karns as Mother Goose.
The film begins as if it were a stage play presented by Mother Goose and her wise-cracking, talking goose companion, Sylvester J. Goose, about two nursery rhyme characters, Mary Contrary and Tom Piper, who are about to be married.
