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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 include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love.
Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, the epic narrative concerns the lives, loves and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk and their lifelong friends on the Mississippi, in Chicago and on Broadway.
The prominence and then disappearance of African-inspired dance in the show traces one strand in the long history of Show Boat productions working to revise racial stereotypes in a bid to keep the show stageworthy.
1927 Original Broadway Production. On December 27, 1927, crowds trickled into the Ziegfeld Theatre on 54th Street, the first to witness the latest show from Florenz Ziegfeld – a highly anticipated affair.
A showboat, or show boat, was a floating theater that traveled along the waterways of the United States, especially along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, to bring culture and entertainment to the river frontiers.
27 déc. 2018 · Show Boat has seen been revived numerous times on Broadway, with the latest production playing the Gershwin Theatre from 1994 to 1997, starring Rebecca Luker and Elaine Stritch.
7 mai 2013 · It's been more than eight decades since Show Boat -- the seminal masterpiece of the American musical theater — premiered on a stage in Washington, D.C. Now the sprawling classic is back, in...
