Show Boat

by Todd R. Decker

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199759375
• ISBN13: 9780199759378
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"