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Show Boat (1946)

Broadway, Musical

Music • Lyrics - AdditionalJoseph E Howard

MusicJerome Kern

Lyrics • Book • Book - RevisedOscar Hammerstein II

Lyrics • Lyrics - AdditionalP. G. Wodehouse

Based on the NovelEdna Ferber

VenueZiegfeld Theatre1341 6th Ave. (at 54th St.) New York, NY

Licensed ByUnknown

Opening DateJan 5th 1946

Closing DateJan 4th 1947

Creative Team
Direction
Hassard Short
Original
Choreography
Helen Tamiris
Original
Dance Captain
Paula Kaye
Original
Music Direction Chorus
Pembroke Davenport
Original
Orchestrations
Robert Russell Bennett
Original
Music Direction
Edwin McArthur
Original
Scenic Design
Howard Bay
Original
Costume Design
Lucinda Ballard
Original
Production Stage Management
William Hammerstein
Original
Assistant Production Stage Management
William Torpey
Original
Cast
Cap'N Andy
Ralph Dumke
Original
Ellie May Chipley
Colette Lyons
Original
Parthy Ann Hawks
Ethel Owen
Original
Frank Schultz
Buddy Ebsen
Original
Julie Laverne
Carol Bruce
Original
Magnolia Hawks
Jan Clayton
Original
Steve Baker
Robert Allen
Original
Joe
Kenneth Spencer
Original
Vallon
Ralph Chambers
Original
Windy
Scott Moore
Original
Pete
Seldon Bennett
Original
Queenie
Helen Dowdy
Original
Kim (Child)
Alyce Mace
Original
Dolly
Lydia Fredericks
Original
Ethel
Assotta Marshall
Original
Fatima
Jean Reeves
Original
Jeane Reeves
Original
Ata
Alma Sutton
Original
Bora
Talley Beatty
Original
Old Lady On The Levee
Frederica Slemons
Original
Indian
Eleanor Boleyn
Original
Old Sport
Willie Torpey
Original
Sister
Sheila Hogan
Original
Dancer (Girls)
Ora Leak
Original
Vivian Cherry
Original
Elmira Jones Bey
Original
Greek (Congress of Beauties)
Audrey Keane
Original
Child
Billy O'Connor
Original
Roland Gamble
Original
Dolores Gamble
Original
Miriam Quinn
Original
Carol Lewis
Original
Billy De Forest
Original
Edward Hayes
Original
Betty Barker
Original
Sybil Stocking
Original
Eugene Steiner
Original
Sal
Pearl Primus
Original
Singers (Boys)
William Bender
Original
John Garth III
Original
David Trimble
Original
Bowling H Mansfield
Original
Glenn Burris
Original
Thomas Jordan
Original
George H Hall
Original
Walter Mosby
Original
Clarence Redd
Original
James Lapsley
Original
William Cole
Original
Jerome Addison
Original
Albert McCary
Original
William Sol
Original
Robert Kimberly
Original
Singers (Girls)
Adah Friley
Original
Clarise Crawford
Original
Assota Marshall
Original
Evelyn Wick
Original
Fannie Turner
Original
Ethel Brown White
Original
Marion Holvas
Original
Linda Mason
Original
Carmine Alexandria
Original
Bettina Thayer
Original
Russian (Congress of Beauties)
Olga Lunick
Original
Jimmy Craig
Jack Daley
Original
Charles Tate
Original
Show Boat Ensemble
Thomas W Gomez
Original
Dancer (Boys)
Stanley Simmons II
Original
Claude Marchant
Original
Eddie Howland
Original
Terry Dawson
Original
Joseph Nash
Original
William Weber
Original
Francisco Xavier
Original
Nick Nadeau
Original
Backwoodsman
Howard Frank
Original
Jake
Max Showalter
Original
Man with Guitar
Thomas Bowman
Original
Rubber Face
Francis Mahoney
Original
Francis X Mahoney
Original
Landlady
Sara Floyd
Original
Lottie
Nancy Kenyon
Original
Jeb
Duncan Scott
Original
Mother Superior
Iris Manley
Original
French (Congress of Beauties)
Janice Bodenhoff
Original
Gaylord Ravenal
Charles Fredericks
Original
Drunk
Paul Shiers
Original
Singer
Hayes Gordon
Original
Frances Joslyn
Original
Robert Bulger
Original
Charlotte Junius
Original
Erno Czako
Original
Tom Bowman
Original
Agnes Sundgren
Original
Marion Holaves
Original
Ivory Bass
Original
Gilbert Adkins
Original
Rodester Timmons
Original
Marion Hairston
Original
Eulabel Riley
Original
William C Smith
Original
Richard Di Silvera
Original
Grace Brenton
Original
Jean Jones
Original
Edward Chappel
Original
William McDaniel
Original
Dancer
Betty Jane Geiskopf
Original
Jeanne Reeves
Original
Viola Taylor
Original
Vickie Henderson
Original
La Verne French
Original
Joe Nash
Original
Andrea Downing
Original
Stanley Simmons
Original
Paula Kaye
Original
Gerard Leavitt
Original
Yvonne Tibor
Original
Marta Becket
Original
William Miller
Original
Elana Keller
Original
Carol Harriton
Original
Henry Wessel
Original
Artistic Production
Producer
Jerome Kern
Original
General Management
General Management
Robert Milford
Original

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