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SHOW BOAT

This show was the first Broadway score ever to have a coherent plot and integrated songs. Based on Edna Ferber's novel of the same name, Showboat is a story that takes place over a period of 50 years looking into the lives of the Hawks family, their showboat troop of actors, and the Cotton Blossom floating theater. The play deals with such themes as mixed marriages, gambling, infidelity, illegitimacy.

VIDEO CLIPS OF THE MUSICAL

1983 Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
(Karla Burns)

1995 Tony Award
Best Revival of a Musical
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
(Gretha Boston)
Best Costume Design
Best Choreography
Best Direction of a Musical

1995 Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Musical
Outstanding Director of a Musical
Outstanding Costume Design
Outstanding Lighting Design
Outstanding Set Design

1995 Theatre World Award
Gretha Boston

BROADWAY PREMIERE
December 27, 1927, played 572 performances

REVIVAL
May 19, 1932, played 180 performances
January 5, 1946, played 418 performances
April 24, 1983, played 73 performances
October 2, 1994, played 947 performances

COMPOSER
Jerome Kern

LYRICIST & LIBRETTIST
Oscar Hammerstein II

ORIGINAL CAST
Jules Bledsoe, Alan Campbell, Bert Chapman, Laura Clairon, Jack Daley, Ted Daniels, Dorothy Denese, Charles Ellis, Robert Farley, Estelle Floyd, Thomas Gunn, Annette Harding, Annie
Hart, Aunt Jemima, J. Louis Johnson, Tana Kamp, Francis X. Mahoney, Howard Marsh, Helen Morgan, Dagmar Oakland, Edna May Oliver, Eva Puck, Mildred Schewenke, Eleanor Shaw, Phil Sheridan, Norma Terris, Sammy White, Charles Winninger, Jack Wynn

DIRECTOR
Zeke Colvan and Oscar Hammerstein II

CHOREOGRAPHER
Sammy Lee

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

PRODUCTION RIGHTS
1946 Version - R&H Theatricals
1994 Harold Prince Version -
R&H Theatricals

LYRICS
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