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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.
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Jerome Kern
Show Boat es un musical en dos actos con música de Jerome Kern y libreto de Oscar Hammerstein II, considerado a menudo el "padre del musical estadounidense". Fue el primero en combinar texto con canciones, en una especie de opereta estadounidense de fuerte contenido racial y crítica social.
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- Jerome David Kern
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Un «teatro flotante» en el río Misisipi
El espectáculo de Kern y Hammerstein no sería sólo otro musical; sería un drama con música. Show Boat era todo lo que esperaban crear y más. En primer lugar, Show Boat estaba lleno de grandes melodías, melodías con letras que capturaban e impulsaban el drama especial de la historia, ninguna más poderosa que "Ol' Man River".
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.
Show Boat. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s immortal musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s sprawling novel receives its most faithful and enduring cinematic treatment under the elegant direction of James Whale.
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For the 1936 film version of Show Boat, Kern and Hammerstein wrote three new songs, including "I Have The Room Above Her" and "Ah Still Suits Me". High, Wide, and Handsome (1937) was intentionally similar in plot and style to Show Boat , but it was a box-office failure.
It was composer Jerome Kern (1885-1945) who convinced her otherwise. He and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) agreed to write a new kind of show, one that would forever change the face of American musicals. Kern assured her that he and Hammerstein would concentrate on bringing Ferber's complex story to life in music, a story line that ...
