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The Effect Of Show Boat On Broadway
The most important reason why Show Boat was a landmark on Broadway because the characters were realistic which portrayed the unhappy marriages, race relations, and miscegenation in that era (Brown.) Show Boat changed the audiences’ perceptions of what a musical theater would be compared to the superficial music comedies and heavy operettas that had previously dominated Broadway (Show Boat—the history.) Not only did Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II adapt Show Boat from the novel, but they also created music and poems to fit each of the character’s emotions. This made Show Boat was far more different and noteworthy than other musicals (Mroczka.) In Show Boat on Broadway in 1927, the producer was Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. and two original stars
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