Show Boat
Show Boat is an American musical in two acts from the year 1927. The music is by Jerome David Kern, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. The book is on the novel by Edna Ferber basis from 1926. The musical was first performed on December 27, 1927 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. The German -language premiere in an arrangement by Janne Furch found in 1970 in the Municipal Theater Freiburg instead. More German -language versions, which are based closely on the original, submitted by Marcel Prawy (debut on 1 March 1971 in Vienna Volksoper ) and Frank Thannhäuser.
The authors described the piece as a musical play. Show Boat is considered the first real musical in which text, music and action form a unit. It tells the story of a vaudeville singer torn between show business and racial discrimination. The action takes place on the "Cotton Blossom", one of the magnificent theater ships operating on the Mississippi. A network of relationships connecting the ship's captain and his pretty daughter, Magnolia, with the theater company and the players on the ship. The unfortunate engineer Joe falls in love with Magnolia. In the evergreen " Ol ' Man River " Joe complained about the lives of the oppressed slaves, and that the Mississippi although knew everything, yet nothing divulge.
Due to the stereotypical portrayal of blacks, its emphasis on racial segregation as well as the use of words such as " nigger " in the texts of the productions always triggered controversy, especially among blacks, from. The musical is very sentimental and romantic design, but without sliding into a pathetic range. The most famous titles from the Evergreen Ol ' Man River, another integral part of the musical is the historically famous as the first song Millionenhit After the Ball, and the song Make Believe.