Show Boat-First Music Play

Show Boat - Kern and Hammerstein's  musical play ''Show Boat" , considered to be the first true American musical play , open at the Theater on Broadway.

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Show Boat is a 'musical' in two acts , with  music by 'Jerome Kern' and book and lyrics by "Oscar Hammerstein II"  based on 'Edna Ferber's' best-selling 'novel of the same name' .The musical follows the lives of the performers stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a 
'Missippi River show boat' , over 40 year from 1887 to 1927 . it themes include . The musical contributed such classic songs as 'OI' Man River", "Make Believe", and "Cant Help Lovin' Dat Man' ".

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