A musical comedy behaved like a comic opera last week. It came back to Broadway just as if it had been written by Gilbert & Sullivan or Franz Lehar or Victor Herbert. It set people to singing again ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook A revival called “Show/Boat: A River” joins a history of reimagining the musical that goes back nearly a century, to its first ...

Set against the backdrop of America’s Deep South at the turn of the 20th-Century. Show Boat tells a powerful story of freedom, loyalty, and above all love. The show’s Broadway premiere in 1927 ...

Unlike the waterway of its most famous song, the landmark 1927 musical “Show Boat”—which integrated song and story with a sophistication that set the American musical on its path to full ...

When Show Boat opened on Broadway in 1927, it was an instant hit. Now, as co-music director and orchestrator of Show/Boat: A River Dan Schlosberg said, “People don’t want to touch it.” Set between the ...