| LYRIC STAGE PRESENTS
SHOW BOAT
In Concert
January 28, 29, 30, 31, 2010
at the Irving Arts Center's Carpenter Hall
Lyric Stage, Dallas County's only locally
produced professional musical theater company, presents SHOW
BOAT in concert with a full orchestra in Carpenter Hall. Performances
are January 28-31, 2010. Tickets can be Ordered
Online by Clicking Here or by calling 972-252-2787.
SHOW BOAT
Music by Jerome Kern
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on the novel "Show Boat" by Edna Ferber
Lyric Stage music director Jay Dias has been working in the
Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization’s archives to recreate
the original 1927 version of SHOW BOAT. Lyric Stage’s
concert presentation of this ground breaking American musical
will feature material that has never been heard by a live audience.
SHOW BOAT will feature a 40 piece orchestra playing Robert Russell
Bennett’s original orchestrations.
Critic Quotes
"If SHOW BOAT isn't the greatest American musical ever
written, it's as close as we'll ever get."
San Francisco Examiner, 1998
"Musicals don't come a lot better than SHOW BOAT, and
indeed they wouldn't come at all had it not been for this one."
International Herald Tribune, 1998
"Excellent... perilously close to being the best New York
has seen...an exceptionally tuneful score...every ingredient
that the perfect musical should have."
The New York Times, 1927
"SHOW BOAT has become part of the American experience,
part of our folklore, with Ol' Man River' occupying a permanent
place in our collective unconcious."
The New Yorker, 1994
"SHOW BOAT dates from 1927 but... it's for the ages."
Chicago Tribune, 1996
"A jewel of the American theater...Featuring so many perfect
scenes and songs that it is impossible to mention them all.
SHOW BOAT is the granddaddy of every great musical ever written!"
Los Angeles Times, 1996
Writer's Notes
Edna Ferber’s notes on the creation of SHOW BOAT
As the writing of the musical play proceeded (and its ups and
downs were even more heartbreaking than those of most musical
plays) I heard bits and pieces of the score. Once or twice everything
was seemingly abandoned because Ziegfeld said he couldn't produce
the play. Almost a year went by. I had heard 'Can't Help Lovin'
Dat Man' with its love-bemused lyric...I had melted under the
bewitching strains of 'Make Believe' and of 'Why Do I Love You?'...And
then Jerome Kern appeared at my apartment late one afternoon
with a strange look of quiet exultation in his eyes. He sat
down at the piano. He didn't play the piano particularly well
and his singing voice, though true, was negligible. He played
and sang 'Ol' Man River.' The music mounted, mounted, and I
give you my word my hair stood on end, the tears came to my
eyes, I breathed like a heroine in a melodrama. This was great
music. This was music that would outlast Jerome Kern's day and
mine. I have never heard it since without that emotional surge.
When SHOW BOAT was revived at the Casino Theater in New York
just four years after its original production at the Ziegfeld
I saw a New York first-night audience, after Paul Robeson's
singing of 'Ol' Man River,' shout and cheer and behave generally
as I've never seen an audience behave in any theater in all
my years of playgoing.
Tickets can be Ordered
Online by Clicking Here or by calling 972-252-2787.
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