Show Boat (1983)

Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Directed by Michael Kahn
Cast: Lonette McKee, Donald O'Connor, Ron Raines, Sheryl Woods, Karla Burns, Avril Gentles, Bruce Hubbard, Paul Keith

as Magnolia, 1929 ;Act I In 1887, the show boat Cotton Blossom arrives at the river dock in Natchez, Mississippi. The Reconstruction era had ended a decade earlier, and white-dominated Southern legislatures have imposed racial segregation and Jim Crow rules. The boat's owner, Cap'n Andy Hawks, introduces his actors to the crowd on the levee.

Theater

Gershwin Theatre · Broadway

Closed

June 26, 1983