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The National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame was founded in 2010. Its name was originally the Official Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. It was founded and developed by American professional basketball player LaMont "ShowBoat" Robinson, who is also an R&B activist and an entrepreneur. [4] [5] Robinson's love for R&B and soul music began at an ...
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.
LaMont "ShowBoat" Robinson (born July 23, 1961) is a former American professional basketball player and businessman. Robinson has been nominated twice to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame [1] and he is the founder and owner of the Harlem Clowns [2] as well as the National Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame.
Centennial Hall London: 1,637 (Seated) 2,200 (General Admission) 1971 Thompson Recreation and Athletics Centre 5,315 2018 Siskinds LLP Stage: 4,000 October 11, 2002 Canada Life Place: 10,200 (Centre stage) 9,100 (End stage) unknown Harris Park: 20,000 Victoria Park: London Music Hall: 1,600 OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino: Niagara Falls: 5,000 1955
The theater's second show was also its most famous—Jerome Kern's landmark musical Show Boat, which opened December 27, 1927, and ran for 572 performances. Due to the decline in new Broadway shows during the Great Depression, the theater became the Loew's Ziegfeld in 1933 and operated as a movie theater until showman Billy Rose bought it in 1944.
British-born actor William Chapman, Sr. created the first deliberately-planned showboat, named the Floating Theater in Pittsburgh in 1831. [1] He and his family of nine, along with two other people, lived on this boat and performed plays with added music and dance at stops along the waterways.
When Art Kawell and H. J. "Nap" Burian purchased it in 1935, it was again renamed; its new name, Casa Loma Ballroom, has remained. [1] As its prices were lower than those of the other dance halls in St. Louis, it was known as a "working-class" ballroom. [2] Mutual and CBS big band remotes were broadcast to a national audience from Casa Loma in ...
Showboat Fisher (1899–1994), American baseball player; Robert Hall (basketball) (1927–2014), American basketball player and member of the Harlem Globetrotters nicknamed "Showboat"