Show Boat (1994)

Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Directed by Harold Prince
Cast: Mark Jacoby, Rebecca Luker, Lonette McKee, John McMartin, Elaine Stritch, Michel Bell, Joel Blum, Gretha Boston

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

January 5, 1997