Opera Cheat Sheet: Show Boat

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In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly discuss Show Boat, the 1927 musical by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). Based on Edna Ferber’s 1926 best-selling novel of the same name, Show Boat tells the story, over a forty-year time span, of the performers and crew of the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat.  Set between 1887 and 1927, and dealing with the... Read More

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