Highlights include a spare reworking of the 1927 musical “Show Boat” and a surprisingly touching new piece by the shock ...

Still, every major revival of the Show Boat could be called a reimagining of the last. Hammerstein and Kern retooled the libretto for a 1928 West End transfer with the original production still ...

As written, with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, adapted from Edna Ferber’s novel, “Show Boat” has always shed powerful light on the viciousness of racism ...

By Joshua Barone Few musicals have as much to say, and as much that could be said about them, as “Show Boat.” First performed in 1927, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s work is a ...

In adapting Edna Ferber’s novel about life on Mississippi River showboat Cotton Blossom ... Robeson—and that’s just Act I. Anchored by Hammerstein’s deft and ardent lyrics, these numbers ...

Cohan, Rudolf Friml, George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II ... including Kern and Hammerstein’s masterpiece Show Boat. In The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines ...

The York Theatre Company has revealed the roster of performers for a concert celebration at the 32nd Oscar Hammerstein ... to such landmark musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, and ...

For much of the 20th century, Show Boat endured as a beloved classic, thanks to a lush, romantic score by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. In recent years, the show’s dated treatment of ...

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 ...