Decker, Todd - Show Boat

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers -- among them Paul Robeson -- made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.

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CONTENTS

Foreword by Geoffrey Block
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Magnolia's Black Voice
Part One: Making
1. A Ferber Plot
2. The Robeson Plan
3. The Morgan Plan
4. A Ziegfeld Soprano and a Shubert Tenor
5. Colored Chorus Curtains
Part Two: Remaking
6. Featuring Robeson: 1928-1940
7. Broadway Black, Hollywood White: 1943-1957
8. Landmark Status: 1954-1989
9. Queenie's Laugh: 1966-1998
Epilogue
Appendix 1 Cast of Characters
Appendix 2 Archival Sources for the 1927 Broadway Production
Appendix 3 Select Stage and Screen Versions (1928-1998)
References
Notes
Index

Series	Broadway Legacies