“Show Boat” was a testament to the courage of composer ... “Ol’ Man River” was a serious song, about the destiny of the mighty Mississippi and the people it encompasses.

Show Boat is a sweeping, tragic romance that wove ... End transfer with the original production still running on Broadway. Songs got replaced and scenes got cut for a 1946 revival and again ...

Unlike the waterway of its most famous song, the landmark 1927 musical “Show Boat”—which integrated song and story with a sophistication that set the American musical on its path to full ...

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 ...

Because music is so central to the plot, Kern and Hammerstein also wrote crucial diegetic songs. In the first act Julie, the show boat’s prima donna, sings “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man ...

Conductor Rodzinski, who rates the Show Boat music “true” and “great” U.S. song, last summer invited Composer Kern to give it the symphonic works. The result is called Scenario for Orchestra.

The singer later gamely lip-synced the song in a cameo as a lounge singer ... was the romantic tenor in films including the 1936 version of “Show Boat” and two Marx Brothers movies.

Show Boat, Universal's second talkerized version ... Ferber-Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern operetta. The now classic songs, ‘Make Believe’, ‘Ol’ Man River’, ‘Can’t Help Lovin ...