Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190250539)

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the book goes on to detail how Show Boat was altered by later directors, choreographers, and performers up to the end of the twentieth century. All the major New York productions are covered, as are five important London productions and four Hollywood versions.

Author: Todd Decker
ISBN-10: 0190250534
ISBN-13: 9780190250539
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2015
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d