If “Show Boat” is, as Rodgers described it, “the first truly American theater music,” it is also the most unstable musical. Some changes over the years have been dramaturgical, and some ...

When Show Boat opened on Broadway in 1927, it was an instant hit. Now, as co-music director and orchestrator of Show/Boat: A River Dan Schlosberg said, “People don’t want to touch it.” ...

Show Boat Production: M-G-M. Director George Sidney; Producer Arthur Freed; Screenplay John Lee Mahin; Camera Charles Rosher; Editor John Dunning; Music Adolph Deutsch (dir.); Art Director Cedric ...