Show Boat, based on the 1926 novel by Edna Ferber ... and their lifelong friends on the Mississippi, in Chicago and on Broadway. Herskovits’ vision for this quintessential American masterpiece ...

It was the first Show Boat I ever saw live. Will it be my last? Centenary’s coming in two years. Will the country have moved on so much that no rewrite would justify a return to Broadway?

Unlike the waterway of its most famous song, the landmark 1927 musical “Show Boat ... Broadway production from 1994, directed by Harold Prince, can hardly be imagined. The lack of sets ...

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.” ...

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 ... The last Broadway revival opened ...