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Home Productions Show Boat (1947)

Show Boat

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Notes: Based on the novel by Edna Ferber
Production Year: 1947
Synopsis:
A young girl raised on a floating show boat theatre finds love and heartbreak with a riverboat gambler.

Cast Member

Role

John Sacco
Jake
William Thompson
1st Barker
Sammy White
Frank
Stanley Simmonds
Windy
Edwin Steffe
Cap'n Andy
Evelyn Wyckoff
Magnolia/Kim (in her twenties)
William C. Smith
Joe
Marjorie Stormont
Mother Superior
Gerry Bauer
2nd Barker
Joseph Cusanelli
Jim
G. Swayne Gordon
Vallon
Robert Davis
Pete/3rd Barker
Robert Childers
Man with a guitar
Carla Caldwell
Dolly
Sara Floyd
Landlady/Old Lady on the Levee
Helen Dowdy
Queenie
Marthe Errolle
Julie
Shirley Faith
Lottie
Chester Bridges
Doorman at the Trocadero
Arthur Breyfogle
Jeb
Wilbur Evans
Gaylord Ravenal
LeRoy Busch
Steve
Christine Morgan
Ethel
Margaret McGrath
Kim (As a Child)
Clee Ethel Lyons
Legend Singers
John Patrick Hickey
Backwoodsman
Arnold Knippenburg
Rubber Face
Helen Raymond
Parthy Ann Hawks
Doris Jean O’Brien
Fatima