When Show Boat opened on Broadway in 1927, it was an instant hit. Now, as co-music director and orchestrator of Show/Boat: A River Dan Schlosberg said, “People don’t want to touch it.” ...
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and ...
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Michel Bell was nominated but did not win. Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Michel Bell was nominated but ...
In block capital letters it says WHITE. Audiences at the premiere of “Show Boat” in late 1927 would have taken that for granted. The musical is entirely the work of white people: Jerome Kern ...
Extensively underscored and richly motivic, the composer’s musical tapestry ushered in ... Edwin Joseph in Show/Boat: A River. Marisa Tornello Besides the canny reduction of forces, the score ...
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 ...
Show Boat started beguiling audiences back in 1927 ... from which Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II did the original musical. There are a few changes in this latest film version, the first ...
Boat Club Productions presents The Last 5 Years, debuting Thursday, Feb. 13, at Spirit of the North Theatre. This emotional musical by Jason Robert Brown tells the story of a marriage in reverse and ...
Show Boat, Universal’s second talkerized version, is a smash filmusical. Basic tender romance [from Edna Ferber’s novel] between Magnolia (Irene Dunne) and Gaylord Ravenal (Allan Jones ...