Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Michel Bell was nominated but did not win. Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Michel Bell was nominated but ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Show Boat, based on the 1926 novel by Edna ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Theater Review “Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals. By Jesse ...

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 ... let alone constantly. The last Broadway revival opened more than 30 years ago.

Show Boat started beguiling audiences back in 1927, when it was first brought to the Broadway stage after a Philadelphia tryout. Since then, in many legit versions and in two previous film ...

The last Broadway revival opened more than 30 years ... not so much on offer—or radical reinterpretation. Styled as “Show/Boat: A River,” Mr. Herskovits’s version of the show is broadly ...

This new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat reframes the 1927 production for today. From the 1880s to 1927, the United States moved from steamboats to airplanes, from vaudeville to ...