Show Boat was the first great serious Broadway musical ... one song in the show originally written not by Hammerstein but by P.G. Wodehouse, for a different show. I love the musical opening ...

“Show Boat” was a testament to the courage of composer Jerome Kern, lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, and producer Florenz Ziegfeld. In an era of “willful nonsense,” they ...

The event, hosted by Friends of Broadway Lake and partly sponsored by Upstate Federal Credit Union, lasted four hours, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The day started with the first cardboard boat race ...