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"Show Boat" Full Production! Pro Shot [Musical Theater] 1989 Paper Mill Playhouse Great Performances

Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. Its themes include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love. The musical contributed such classic songs as "Ol' Man River", "Make Believe", and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". Show Boat is a product of its era. The show began its life on the Broadway stage, as a commercial venture, in 1927. Playwright and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein (later of “Rogers and”) and his pre-Rogers collaborator, Jerome Kern, convinced the leading Broadway producer of the 1920s, Florenz Ziegfield, to let them push the envelope on the standard “boy meets girl” formula to make a show out of that year’s best selling novel, Edna Ferber’s Show Boat. Kern and Hammerstein came up with a show that, while preserving the tried-and-true boy-meets-girl strategy of every previous Broadway show, dealt, like Ferber’s novel, with themes of racial identity, discrimination, gender roles, economic inequality, generational conflict, the emergence of consumer society and addiction. (Ferber had included hints of homosexuality and references to prostitution in the novel, but Kern and Hammerstein weren’t quite ready to push the Broadway audience that far in 1927.) Whether or not a viewer sees certain aspects of Show Boat as part of the historical record, or to see those aspects as a reinforcement of outdated stereotypes, depends on the individual. What is certain is that, almost a century later, Show Boat continues to entertain, to inform in unexpected ways, and to force audience members to think, in the midst of beautiful music and spectacle, about the intertwined hopes and failures of America. THE STORY The Cotton Blossom showboat loses its star performers when leading lady Julie LaVerne is discovered to have a mixed ancestry. When the law forces Julie and her husband Steve Baker to leave the show, Capt. Andy Hawks casts his daughter, Magnolia, in the lead role as a replacement, playing opposite Gaylord Ravenal, a mysterious drifter. They fall in love despite the protests of Mrs. Hawks, and a marriage is announced. Songs include "Ol' Man River," "Life Upon the Wicked Stage," and "You Are Love." The second half of the program follows the lives and shifting fortunes of former Cotton Blossom performers, both on the riverboat and in Chicago. Gaylord Ravenal's life as a gambler threatens his marriage to Magnolia, who returns to the stage; Frank and Ellie become a vaudevillian comedy team and adopt a child; and Julie LaVerne struggles with her problems while also working in vaudeville. Many characters are reunited in 1920 aboard the brand new Cotton Blossom. Songs include "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Make Believe," "Why Do I Love You?," "Bill," and a reprise of "Ol' Man River." SONGS Act 1 00:05:10 - "Cotton Blossom" – Stevedores and Townspeople 00:05:10 - "Where's the Mate for Me?" – Ravenal 00:16:02 - "Make Believe" – Ravenal and Magnolia 00:24:23 - "Ol' Man River" – Joe and Stevedores 00:33:03 - "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" – Julie & Ensemble 00:59:02 - "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" – Ellie/Townswomen 01:20:00 - "I Might Fall Back on You" – Ellie, Frank and Girls 01:05:23: - "C'mon Folks" – Queenie, Stevedores and Gals 01:06:50 - "Olio Dance" – (instrumental) 01:24:00 - "You Are Love" – Ravenal and Magnolia 01:29:02 - Act I "Finale" – Chorus Act 2 01:32:33 - "At the Fair" – Sightseers, Barkers, and Dandies 01:30:24 - "Dandies on Parade" – City Folk 01:38:17 - "Why Do I Love You?" – Company 01:41:00 - "In Dahomey" – Jubilee Singers/Dahomey Dancers 01:50:35 - "Nuns' Processional" – Nuns 01:52:43 - "Make Believe" – Ravenal 01:55:55 - "Bill" – Julie 02:01:16 - "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" – Magnolia 02:05:29 - "Goodbye, My Lady Love" – Frank and Ellie 02:11:45 - "After the Ball" – Magnolia and Ensemble 02:15:10: - "Ol' Man River" – Joe 02:16:58 - "Hey, Feller" – Jubilee Singers and Queenie 02:22:18 - "Why Do I Love You?" – Kim and Flappers 02:29:30 - "You Are Love" – Ravenal, Julie 02:32:00 - "Finale Ultimo" – Joe and Chorus ABOUT A stage production of the classic musical, videotaped in front of a live audience at the Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey and aired on PBS stations throughout the US on October 27th, 1989 Season 18, Episode 4 in the Great Performances series. This channel is purposely not monetized. Any ad revenue is paid to YouTube and the copyright holder: The WNET Group.