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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.
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Jerome Kern
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.
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- Jerome David Kern
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Un «teatro flotante» en el río Misisipi
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.
Show Boat. Premier: December 27, 1927. Theater: Ziegfeld Theater. Music by: Jerome Kern. Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II. Book by: Oscar Hammerstein II, based on SHOW BOAT by Edna...
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...
