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Show Boat - October 25, 2014

San Francisco Opera

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The 2014 season of San Francisco Opera broadcasts on Classical 90.5 concludes beginning at noon this Saturday, October 25, with a performance of Show Boat by Jerome Kern, with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The performance will run approximately two hours and forty-five minutes.

A true classic of American musical theater, this tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s to the 1920s is both a poignant love story and a powerful reminder of the bitter legacy of racism. Director Francesca Zambello’s grand-scale production is "a triumph—a stylish, fast-paced and colorful show that had the capacity audience on its feet, cheering loud and long" said the Chicago Classical Review. The magnificent Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score, which includes such classic songs as "Ol’ Man River," "Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man," "Make Believe" and "You Are Love," will be performed under the authoritative baton of music-theater maestro John DeMain.

THE CAST
Magnolia Hawks: Heidi Stober
Gaylord Ravenal: Michael Todd Simpson
Cap'n Andy Hawks: Bill Irwin
Julie La Verne: Patricia Racette
Queenie: Angela Renée Simpson
Parthy Ann Hawks: Harriet Harris
Ellie May Chipley: Kirsten Wyatt
Joe: Morris Robinson
Frank Schultz: John Bolton

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