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Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. Its themes ...
SHOW BOAT is a musical play about reinvention, the irrepressible spirit of showbiz people, and what we make of the endless passage of time—time that flows on like a mighty river. On the surface, it might seem that this famed show is a love story, or a story about a family—maybe about a family and its servants and employees.
“Show Boat” was an out-and-out hit, running 572 performances and proved so beloved by audiences and so lucrative for Ziegfeld that he revived it as early as 1932.
Spanning from the 1880s to the 1920s, Show Boat is an American epic that tells the story of three generations of performers travelling from the Mississippi River to Chicago, and ultimately, Broadway.
Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, the lyrical masterpiece Show Boat explores the lives, loves and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk on the Mississippi, in Chicago and on Broadway. Captain Andy commands the Cotton Blossom with his wife Parthy at his side.
Unlike the dazzling revues for which Ziegfeld was known, Show Boat paved an uncharted path with a bold and ambitious vision; here was a new kind of musical operetta comedy with three-dimensional characters dealing with serious, realistic themes woven into a substantial plot.
Dec 27, 2020 · Show Boat, Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern’s musical adaptation of the Edna Ferber novel, opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre December 27, 1927. The groundbreaking musical examines the lives of...
