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Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name.The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.
Winninger was born in Athens, Wisconsin, the son of Rosalia (Grassler) and Franz Winninger. [1] His parents were Austrian immigrants. [2] [3] He began as a vaudeville actor.His most famous stage role was as Cap'n Andy Hawks in the original production of Show Boat, the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical classic, in 1927.
Show Boat is a 1936 American romantic musical film directed by James Whale, based on the 1927 musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was adapted from the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.
Gaylord Ravenal is the leading male character in Edna Ferber's 1926 novel Show Boat, in the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical of the same name based on the novel, and in the films and other adaptations of the story.
Lena Horne as Julie Laverne singing the song in a mini-production of Show Boat in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern.. The song, written in a blues tempo, is sung in the show by several characters, but is most closely associated with the character Julie, the biracial leading lady of the showboat Cotton Blossom.
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The time is the late nineteenth century. Captain Andy Hawks is a former riverboat owner with a shrewish wife, Parthy Ann, and a 10-year-old daughter, Magnolia. He buys the new show boat Cotton Blossom. Among its acting cast are Julie Dozier and her husband Steve Baker, and Ellie Chipley and her husband, affectionately known as "Schultzy".
In the show, it is first sung as a duet by the characters Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome riverboat gambler, and the teenage Magnolia Hawks, an aspiring performer and daughter of the show boat captain, soon after their meeting in Act I. It reveals that they are smitten with each other almost immediately upon meeting and sets the tone for the ...