Casting has been announced for the Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater’s world premiere production of Show/Boat: A River, presented by NYU Skirball in partnership with the 2025 Under the ...

Show Boat opened on Broadway on December 27, 1927, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. Show Boat's glorious songs include “Ol' Man River,” “Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man,” “Make Believe” and ...

Broadway actors Kirsten Wyatt and John Bolton provide the showboat’s song-and-dance team of Ellie Mae Chipley and Frank Schultz considerable razzle-dazzle. Harriet Harris is a hilariously shrill ...

KERN WAS STILL READING Edna Ferber’s 1926 novel, “Show Boat,” when he knew he wanted to adapt it for the stage. Its setting and plot, about generations of performers from a family that runs ...

'Show Boat' Steams On, ... Based on Edna Ferber's epic best-selling novel, Show Boat was nothing like the frothy musicals and scantily clad Broadway revues of its time.

When Show Boat opened on Broadway in 1927, it was an instant hit.Now, as co-music director and orchestrator of Show/Boat: A River Dan Schlosberg said, “People don’t want to touch it.”. Show ...

Broadway had never seen anything like it when Show Boat arrived at the Ziegfeld Theatre in 1927. The score was unforgettable and the story tackled complex racial issues. There have been three ...

Musical Show Boat, ... How Classic Broadway Shows Are Built, agrees, saying: "It was a show which did a lot to shape the definition of what we were going to do in musical theatre." ...

Rebecca Luker as Maria, surrounded by the von Trapp children, in the 1998 Broadway revival of “The Sound of Music.” She also starred in hit revivals of “Show Boat” and “The Music Man ...