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Broadway's Hottest Tickets |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Camille Hardy |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,957 Words, 11,914 Characters |
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Show Boat, opening at New York's Gershwin Theater on October 2, is a landmark achievement in the American lyric theater as one of this century's most substantive attempts at weaving music, dance, and literature into a theatrical saga of everyday people and realistic issues. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber, with a score by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, the musical was a smash from its initial Broadway performance on December 27, 1927, under the meticulous supervision of Florenz Ziegfeld. The show's current edition finds Harold Prince, a director with as many accolades to his credit as the legendary Ziegfeld, at the helm.
With Show Boat, audiences continue to enjoy the strong spate of revivals that continues a lucrative trend for the Great White Way into the fall 19...
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...ig and performances by Antigravity.
The character Ellie Mae Chipley in Show Boat declares that "life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what a girl supposes." Stephen Sondheim's Passion, winner of the 1994 Tony designation as best musical, has no dancing at all. Elsewhere, however, Broadway theatergoers can expect a wide and vivid assortment of spectacular dancing in the upcoming season.
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