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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.
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.
Basado en la novela de Edna Ferber, se estrenó en el Teatro Ziegfield en 1927; protagonizado por Helen Morgan, alcanzó 572 representaciones, y ha sido llevada al cine en tres ocasiones.
Based on Edna Ferber’s classic American novel, 1927’s lyrically masterful Show Boat, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, is the most-recorded musical of all time. The first show of its kind, Show Boat presented complex characters grappling with timely, realistic themes woven into a substantial plot.
In 1927, the very first thing audiences saw when Show Boat’s curtain rose was a Black chorus launching a show with an interracial cast—a sign of progress toward equitable race relations. But the first word this ensemble sang was a racial slur, referring to Black people in derogatory terms and their hard labor on the river.
27 de dic. de 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...
Staged by Zeke Colvan and Oscar Hammerstein II; Choreographed by Sammy Lee. Scenic Design by Joseph Urban; Costume Design by John Harkrider. Show Boat (Original, Musical, Drama) opened in New York City Dec 27, 1927 and played through May 4, 1929.
