Show Boat

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  Original Broadway Production (1927)
  New York, NY
• London Production (1928)
  London, England
• Broadway Revival (1932)
  New York, NY
• Film Version (1936)
  unknown location
• S
  London Revival (1943)
  London, England
• S
  Broadway Revival (1946)
  New York, NY
• S
  Return Engagement (1948)
  New York, NY
• Film Version (1951)
  unknown location
• Lincoln Center Revival (1966)
  New York, NY
• London Revival (1971)
  London, England
• S
  Broadway Revival (1983)
  New York, NY
• London Revival (1990)
  London, England
• S
  Broadway Revival (1994)
  New York, NY
• S
  1st National Tour (1995)
  USA
• London Production (1998)
  London, England
• London Revival (2006)
  London, England
• New York Philharmonic Concert (2014)
  New York, NY
• S
  London Revival (2016)
  London, England

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There are a total of 85 productions in Ovrtur's database.

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• Original score

  • Cotton Blossom
  • Parade and Ballyhoo
    • a.k.a. Cap'n Andy's Ballyhoo
    • a.k.a. Captain Andy
    • a.k.a. Show Boat Ballyhoo
    • a.k.a. Show Boat Parade and Ballyhoo
  • Where's the Mate for Me?
    • a.k.a. Who Cares If My Boat Goes Upstream?
  • Only Make Believe
    • a.k.a. Make Believe
  • Ol' Man River
    • a.k.a. Old Man River
  • Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
    • a.k.a. Can't Help Lovin' That Man
    • a.k.a. Can't Help Loving That Man of Mine
  • Life on the Wicked Stage
    • a.k.a. Life Upon the Wicked Stage
  • Till Good Luck Comes My Way
    • a.k.a. 'Till Good Luck Comes My Way
  • Misery
  • I Might Fall Back on You
  • C'mon, Folks
    • a.k.a. Ballyhoo
    • a.k.a. Queenie's Ballyhoo
  • You Are Love
  • At the Fair
  • Adagio Dance
    • a.k.a. The Streets of Cairo
  • Dandies on Parade
    • a.k.a. The Sports of Gay Chicago
  • Why Do I Love You?
  • In Dahomey
  • Bill
  • Service and Scene Music, St. Agatha's Convent
    • a.k.a. Alma Redemptoris Mater
    • a.k.a. Nuns' Processional
    • a.k.a. Service and Scene Music ? St. Agatha's Convent
  • Apache Dance
  • Goodbye, My Lady Love
  • After the Ball
  • Hey, Feller
    • a.k.a. Hey Fella!
  • Eccentric Dance
  • Kim's Imitations
    • a.k.a. Imitation of her mother and stars of the 1920s
  • Tap Dance

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• Cut After Pittsburgh

  • Musical Scena
    • a.k.a. Pantry Scene

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• Cut After Washington, D. C.

  • I Would Like to Play a Lover's Part
  • Be Happy, Too
    • a.k.a. Cheer Up
  • It's Getting Hotter in the North
    • a.k.a. No Mason-Dixon Line

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• Cut prior to opening

  • Waterfront Saloon Scene
  • Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'
    • a.k.a. Mis'ry's Comin' Round
    • a.k.a. Misery Music
  • Choral Waltz
  • Specialty
  • My Girl
  • Coal Black Lady
  • Bully Song
  • Trocadero Ballet
    • a.k.a. Ballet
  • Hello, My Baby
  • I'm Just Wild About Harry
  • Trocadero Opening Chorus
    • a.k.a. Let's Make the New Year
  • Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-der-e
  • Harmonica Number
  • Box Office Scene
  • Yes, Ma'am
  • A Pack of Cards
  • The Creole Love Song
  • Out There in an Orchard
  • Rhapsody in Blue
  • Party Song
  • Show Boat Song
  • How'd You Like to Spoon With Me?
  • Me and My Boss
  • All God's Children Got Wings
    • a.k.a. All God's Chillun Got Shoes
    • a.k.a. I Got Shoes
    • a.k.a. I Gotta Shoe
    • a.k.a. I've Got Shoes
  • Negro Peanut Vender's Street Cry
  • Dance 1927
  • While Strolling Through the Park One Day
    • a.k.a. The Fountain in the Park
    • a.k.a. While Strolling Through the Park One Day
  • Auld Lang Syne

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• Cut from 1929 film version

  • Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho
    • a.k.a. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
  • Carry Me Back to Old Virginia
    • a.k.a. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

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• Added to 1929 film version

  • The Lonesome Road
  • Down South
  • Love Sings a Song in My Heart
  • Here Comes the Showboat
  • Deep River
  • Coon, Coon, Coon

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• Added to 1936 film version

  • I Have the Room Above Her
  • Gallivantin' Around
  • Ah Still Suits Me
    • a.k.a. I Still Suits Me

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• Cut from 1936 film version

  • Got My Eye on You

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• Status unknown

  • Congress of Beauties
  • Washington Post March

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• Added to later versions

  • Dance Away the Night
  • Nobody Else But Me

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Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• No demos listed.

Based on the novel by Edna Ferber.

An epic musical revealing life behind the scenes on a show boat. Magnolia falls in love with Gaylord, a river gambler, and leaves her father's show boat to marry him in the 1880s. Years of heartbreak return her to the show boat in the 1920s.

Edna Ferber (who wrote the source novel) and composer Jerome Kern were introduced by Alexander Woollcott at the opening of Kern's Criss Cross in 1926. Ferber was not keen on the adaptation of her novel to the stage at first because most musicals were fluffy and shallow. But Kern relented, convinced that he could do something with it. She eventually agreed.

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• Showboat (alternate title)