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Show Boat

musical by Kern and Hammerstein II

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development of musicals

In musical: Show Boat and the golden age of musicals
…with the 1927 production of Show Boat (music by Kern, book and lyrics by Hammerstein); it was the first musical to provide a cohesive plot and initiate the use of music that was integral to the narrative, a practice that did not fully take hold until the 1940s. Based on…
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discussed in biography

In Jerome Kern
composers of musical comedy, whose Show Boat (with libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II) inaugurated the serious musical play in U.S. theatre.
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Robeson

In Paul Robeson: Stardom on the stage and screen
…Joe in the musical play Show Boat with his incomparable performance of “Ol’ Man River.” The role of the boat’s stevedore had been expanded by composers Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II from the musical’s source material—Edna Ferber’s 1926 novel—specifically for Robeson, and the lyrics of “Ol’ Man River” had…
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