Show Boat

SHOW BOAT Music by Jerome Kern | Book &
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Based on the novel SHOW BOAT by
Edna Ferber


Episode Segments:


1:58 - Speed Test

4:24 - Why God Why

8:27 - Back to Before

28:08 - What's Inside

54:27 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

1:13:33 - Our Favorite Things

1:19:05 - Corner of the Sky

1:20:27 – What Comes Next?



Works Consulted & Reference :


Show Boat (Original Libretto) by Oscar Hammerstein II

Show Boat (Harold Prince Version) by Oscar Hammerstein II

Show Boat (Goodspeed Version) by Oscar Hammerstein II |
Adapted by Rob Ruggiero

Show Boat: The Story of a Classic American Musical by Miles
Krueger 

Broadway: The American Musical by Michael Kantor &
Laurence Maslon

Musical! A Grand Tour by Denny Martin Flinn

B’WAY: The American Musical (2004 PBS Documentary)

Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel by M.
Nourbese Philip

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical by Todd
Decker

The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical by Warren
Hoffman



Music Credits:


"Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear
World Orchestra & Donald Pippin

"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie
 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by
Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc
Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble

"Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live
Recording  (Original Cast Recording  /
Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by
Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by
Alistair Brammer

"Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original
Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty,
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie

"What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles |
Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble

"Bill” from Oh, Lady, Lady | Music by Jerome Kern
& Lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse | Performed by Kate Baldwin

"Bill" from Show Boat (1993 Toronto Revival Cast) |
Music by Jerome Kern | Words by P.G. Wodehouse & Oscar
Hammerstein II | Performed by Lonnette McKee

"Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack
Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia
Nelson, Marni Nixon

"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original
Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics
by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews

"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast
Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz |
Performed by Matthew James Thomas

“What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast
Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda |
Performed by Jonathan Groff