40. The Cup | Showboat, San Francisco Opera

Welcome back to the 40th episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. The theatres may be closed, but art finds a way to survive! For the time being on this podcast we are rereleasing our past reviews, interviews, roundtables, and duet reviews in remastered audio only versions so you can take your CoH content on the go! For our 40th episode we continue to branch out our review series beyond the Stratford Festival and onto other productions. In this episode we discussed the 2014 San Francisco Opera's production of the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II musical, Showboat, directed by Francesca Zambello, and starring Heidi Stober as Magnolia Hawks, Michael Todd Simpson as Gaylord Ravenal, Morris Robinson as Joe, Patricia Racette as Julie La Verne, and Bill Irwin as Cap'n Andy Hawks. Cup of Hemlock Theatre is a Toronto-based performing arts collective dedicated to staging works that examine the moral quandaries of the human experience. With an inquisitive compass, we aim to provide audiences the space to retrace their personal stories and navigate their individual ideologies. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: cohtheatre Follow our panelists: Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Alana Hibbert – Twitter: @ar_hibb  Canadian College for the Performing Arts: http://www.ccpacanada.com/programs/   Alicia Plummer – Instagram: itisaliciaplummer // TikTok: hialiciabyealicia // YouTube: Alicia Onlineee: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoGyruNhQQwNhWj_ncbQbDA/featured   Benjamin MacKinnon – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won’t mind!]