Cap’n Andy’s show boat, the COTTON BLOSSOM, travels up and down the Mississippi for decades, folding in its wake his brittle wife and glowing daughter, Magnolia, and her doomed romance with a ...

show boat) on the Mississippi River. It traces the tragic love story between Magnolia, the ship captain’s wide-eyed daughter, and Ravenal, a rogue with a gambling problem; Magnolia goes from ...

Styled as “Show/Boat: A River,” Mr. Herskovits’s version ... The first act, set in and around the vessel, which travels the Mississippi, takes place on a bare stage in front of a semi ...

Though his etymology was off—the Ojibwe words that gave us Mississippi (Misi-ziibi) actually mean “long river”—the idea has proven durable. “Ol’ Man River” buoyed Show Boat ...

In adapting Edna Ferber’s novel about life on Mississippi River showboat Cotton Blossom, Kern wove a lush score from spirituals, Dixieland, European waltz and burgeoning jazz. Extensively ...