William and Fonda Sherrill of Tuscaloosa County purchased the historic showboat the Cotton Blossom in Manderson, La., and brought it to Tuscaloosa.

There is no Cotton Blossom to speak of—no boat to show. The first act, set in and around the vessel, which travels the Mississippi, takes place on a bare stage in front of a semi-transparent ...

“Show Boat” takes the audience through 40 years in the lives of various performers on the Cotton Blossom, a paddlewheel bringing entertainment up and down the Mississippi from the late 1880s ...

Cap’n Andy’s show boat, the COTTON BLOSSOM, travels up and down the Mississippi for decades, folding in its wake his brittle wife and glowing daughter, Magnolia, and her doomed romance with a ...

I wonder if the orchestra could have been on a raised platform that could have been incorporated into an upper deck of the showboat Cotton Blossom.

Here's some context: Show Boat is a musical based on Edna Ferber's novel about life on the Cotton Blossom, a show boat that sailed up and down the Mississippi River for almost half a century after ...

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She has retained the period feel of the show, based on a novel by Edna Ferber, about life on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi showboat in the late 1880s in a troubling South, where miscegenation ...

In adapting Edna Ferber’s novel about life on Mississippi River showboat Cotton Blossom, Kern wove a lush score from spirituals, Dixieland, European waltz and burgeoning jazz.