Tonight the Dallas Opera put on the first musical in its history in grand
style. Show Boat featured a 51-piece
orchestra, 37 named roles, 43 chorus members, 27 boxes of hats, a 40-foot container
of props and enough costumes to fill half of a 53-foot semi-trailer truck!
Jon and I took the girls along with Hannah and Mikayla to the extravagant
production. Show Boat began on Broadway stage in 1927. Playwright and
lyricist Oscar Hammerstien (later of “Rogers and”) convinced Florenz Ziegfield
to let him produce the show in the 1920s taken from the best selling novel by
Edna Ferber.
The show is probably best known for songs like Ol’ Man River, which was
FABULOUS! Some of the songs were adapted
to operatic songs, but others kept the Broadway musical style.
Great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. Matthew 13:2
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