Show Boat

Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. a musical in two acts based on a 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. Generally considered to be the first true American "musical play". The show opened on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York on December 27, 1927, where it ran for a year and a half. ** In 1964 Anthony Farmer directed and designed a production for JODS, with Inia te Wiata, Marie Van Zyl, Olive King, Ronnie Shelton, Shirley Arden and the Capedium Choir at the Civic Theatre in 1963. It played at the Civic again in 1964, and JODS took it to African Theatre’s Cape Town venue, the Alhambra Theatre, where the Eoan Group replaced the Capedium Choir. Directed by Anthony Farmer for PACT at the Pretoria State Theatre in December 1984, with Bess Arlene, Mayo Miza, with Ed Barrett and Pieter Niemann alternating the role of Gaylord Ravenals.

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