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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.
It premiered in Philadelphia in 1927 and played on Broadway in 1928. It spawned a number of revivals and two film adaptations, and it remains popular with light opera companies. The piece turned out to be "Broadway's last hit operetta", [1] as World War II and the Golden Age of musicals approached, heralding a change in musical theatre genres. [2]
Swiss Miss, (1926) arrangement of a song from Lady, Be Good. Machinery Gone Mad, (1927) unpublished. Blue Monday, (1927) a piano suite based on Gershwin's one-act opera of the same name. Merry Andrew, (1928) arrangement of a dance piece from Rosalie. Three-Note Waltz, (1931) Also known as Melody #36.
American Theatre in the 1920s. In the 1920s, theater in the United States and the cinema of the United States were both increasingly active. Broadway was reaching its peak, classic theatre was working to be recognized, and the cinema business was growing as well. Within this decade, there were many changes within the social, economic, and legal ...
The original Broad Street Station in September 1885 The station in the 1920s. The original station was designed by Wilson Brothers & Company under authority of the old Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (established 1836 from merger of four smaller segment lines dating to 1831, running southwest to Baltimore and its President Street Station which had just been purchased by the ...
The team that created the famous Princess Theatre musicals broke apart acrimoniously in 1918, and Kern was eager to work with the affable Caldwell. The Night Boat was an immediate hit in New York, and her role in the musical made Louise Groody a Broadway star, going on to play, among others, the title role in No, No, Nanette in 1925.
June 13, 1978. The Trocadero Theatre (opened as the Arch Street Opera House) is a historic theater located in Chinatown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It offered musical comedies, vaudeville, opera, and burlesque. The Trocadero Theatre was refurbished for use as an art house cinema and fine arts theatre in 1970s, and by the 1990s had become an ...
William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 [1] – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler, and writer. [2] Fields's career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He began to incorporate comedy into his act and was a featured comedian ...