Description
Kern: Show Boat - John McGlinn / Frederica von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Jerry Hadley, Bruce Hubbard, Karla Burns, David Garrison, Paige O'Hara, Robert Nichols, Nancy Kulp, Lillian Gish / EMI Classics 3x Audio CD 2006
UPC 094636154329
Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. Its themes include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love. The musical contributed such classic songs as "Ol' Man River", "Make Believe", and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man".
The musical was first produced in 1927 by Florenz Ziegfeld. The premiere of Show Boat on Broadway was an important event in the history of American musical theatre. It "was a radical departure in musical storytelling, marrying spectacle with seriousness", compared with the trivial and unrealistic operettas, light musical comedies and "Follies"-type musical revues that defined Broadway in the 1890s and early 20th century. According to The Complete Book of Light Opera:
Here we come to a completely new genre – the musical play as distinguished from musical comedy. Now … the play was the thing, and everything else was subservient to that play. Now … came complete integration of song, humor and production numbers into a single and inextricable artistic entity.
The quality of Show Boat was recognized immediately by critics, and it is frequently revived. Awards did not exist for Broadway shows in 1927, when the show premiered, or in 1932 when its first revival was staged. Late 20th-century revivals of Show Boat have won both the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical (1995) and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival (1991).
| Label: | EMI Classics – 094636154329 |
|---|---|
| Series: | Great Recordings Of The Century |
| Format: |
3 x CD
|
| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
20068 |
| Genre: | Classical, Stage & Screen |
| Style: | Musical, Operetta |
Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Overture | |
| 1-2 | N*****s All Work On De Mississippi | |
| 1-3 | Andy!! Drat The Man, He's Never Around! | |
| 1-4 | Here Comes The Show Boat Parade! | |
| 1-5 | Hey, Julie! That's A Hell Of A Thing To Do | |
| 1-6 | It's A Man... | |
| 1-7 | Who Cares If My Goat Goes Upstream | |
| 1-8 | Only Make Believe I Love You | |
| 1-9 | Oh, Joe! Did You See That Young Man I Was Talkin' To? | |
| 1-10 | What Cher Doin' All By Yourself, Miss Nola? | |
| 1-11 | Why Do Stage-Struck Maidens Clamor? | |
| 1-12 | The Man Who Ventures With Chance | |
| 1-13 | Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun' | |
| 1-14 | Take her Up, Rubberface! | |
| 1-15 | Hello, Windy | |
| 1-16 | You Needn't All Look At Us Like We Were A Couple Of Animals | |
| 1-17 | Looks Like A Swell | |
| 2-1 | Her Face Is Fair To Look Upon | |
| 2-2 | Little Girl, You Are Safe With Me | |
| 2-3 | Is De Theatre Fillin' Up, Cap'n Andy? | |
| 2-4 | Villain Dance | |
| 2-5 | That You, Nola? | |
| 2-6 | Oh Tell Me, Did You Ever! | |
| 2-7 | When We Tell Them About It All | |
| 2-8 | I'm Walking On The Air, Dear | |
| 2-9 | Dyunga Doe! Dyunga Doe! | |
| 2-10 | Alma Redemptoris Mater | |
| 2-11 | All Right, Jake-Call 'Em At Twelve | |
| 2-12 | I Used To Dream That I Would Discover | |
| 2-13 | Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly | |
| 2-14 | Whaddaya Say, Boss? | |
| 2-15 | Let's Make The New Year Far From A Blue Year | |
| 2-16 | Apache Dance | |
| 2-17 | So You're Going Away | |
| 2-18 | Ladies And Gentlemen-I Regret To Announce | |
| 2-19 | Ol' Man River | |
| 2-20 | When You Yen For A Gent | |
| 2-21 | That You, Nola? | |
| 3-1 | Cotton Blossom, Cotton Blossom | |
| 3-2 | Now Up In The Northern Land | |
| 3-3 | Say, Cap'n Andy, Sorry We Couldn't Stay | |
| 3-4 | Hello, Gay. She'll Probably Come Out On The Top Deck | |
| 3-5 | What Cher Doin' All By Yourself, Miss Nola? | |
| 3-6 | Number Four, Black! | |
| 3-7 | Bet Your Hat You're From The Show Boat | |
| 3-8 | Why Do I Love You? | |
| 3-9 | Music In The Air And A Crowd On The Floor | |
| 3-10 | One Night As I Sat By My Fireside So Weary | |
| 3-11 | That You, Nola? | |
| 3-12 | There Was A Sun Sinking Slowly In The West | |
| 3-13 | Liza Matilda Hill Visited Friends In Louisville | |
| 3-14 | Seems To Me I've Seen That Stocking Someplace | |
| 3-15 | Joe! Dere You Go Again! | |
| 3-16 | I Was A Shy, Demure Type |
