Based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. An epic musical revealing life behind the scenes on a show boat. Magnolia falls in love with Gaylord, a river gambler, and leaves her father’s show boat to ...

Unlike the waterway of its most famous song, the landmark 1927 musical “Show Boat”—which integrated song and story with a sophistication that set the American musical on its path to full ...

This new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat reframes the 1927 production for today. From the 1880s to 1927, the United States moved from steamboats to airplanes, from vaudeville to radio ...

When Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II first adapted Edna Ferber’s epic novel “Show Boat” for the stage, in the nineteen-twenties, they were the wild-eyed experimenters of their day. The American ...

When Show Boat was premiered on Broadway in 1927 it changed the course of musical theatre and so began a new era in the history of musicals. It is considered to be the first musical show in which the ...

The Broadway masterpieces of Bernstein, Weill and Sondheim probably couldn't have existed without Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's 1927 "Show Boat" preceding them. "Show Boat" was a watershed ...