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Show Boat - Performing Race in an American Musical (Hardcover, New)
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Show Boat - Performing Race in an American Musical (Hardcover, New)
Series: Broadway Legacies
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full
story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in
Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and
including much new information from early draft scripts and scores,
this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created
Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the
show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as
Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the
book goes on to detail how Show Boat was altered by later
directors, choreographers, and performers up to the end of the
twentieth century. All the major New York productions are covered,
as are five important London productions and four Hollywood
versions.
Again and again, the story of Show Boat circles back to the power
of performers to remake the show, winning appreciative audiences
for over seven decades. Unlike most Broadway musicals, Show Boat
put black and white performers side by side. This book is the first
to take Show Boat's innovative interracial cast as the defining
feature of the show. From its beginnings, Show Boat juxtaposed the
talents of black and white performers and mixed the conventions of
white-cast operetta and the black-cast musical. Bringing black and
white onto the same stage--revealing the mixed-race roots of
musical comedy--Show Boat stimulated creative artists and
performers to renegotiate the color line as expressed in the
American musical. This tremendous longevity allowed Show Boat to
enter a creative dialogue with the full span of Broadway history.
Show Boat's voyage through the twentieth century offers a vantage
point on more than just the Broadway musical. It tells a complex
tale of interracial encounter performed in popular music and dance
on the national stage during a century of profound transformations.
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