Muny Archive

Show Boat

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Notes: Based on the novel by Edna Ferber
Production Year: 1952
Synopsis:
A young girl raised on a floating show boat theatre finds love and heartbreak with a riverboat gambler.

Cast Member

Role

Man with a guitar
Backwoodsman
Magnolia/Kim (in her twenties)
Parthy Ann Hawks
Cap'n Andy
2nd Barker/Rubber Face
Gaylord Ravenal
Mother Superior
Landlady/Old Lady on the Levee
Kim (As a Child)
Doorman at the Trocadero
Legend Singers
1st Barker