NewsShow Boat, With Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Norm Lewis, Broadcast on PBS TonightThe annual PBS Arts Fall Festival, which features eight new programs hosted by Grammy winner Gloria Estefan — whose own musical journey with her husband Emilio, On Your Feet!, recently began previews on Broadway — continues Oct. 16 with "Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat in Concert with the New York Philharmonic."
October 16, 2015
The Live from Lincoln Center production begins at 9 PM ET on PBS stations around the country; check local listings.
Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsham, Norm Lewis, Fred Willard, Jane Alexander Star in the New York Philharmonic's Show Boat
Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsham, Norm Lewis, Fred Willard, Jane Alexander Star in the New York Philharmonic's Show Boat
The New York Philharmonic's semi-staged production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Tony Award-winning musical Show Boat is presented Nov. 5–8 at Avery Fisher Hall.
"This groundbreaking musical redefined entertainment and changed the face of American theater," according to press notes. "Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s lyrical masterpiece concerns the lives, loves and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk on the Mississippi River, in Chicago and on Broadway. The musical’s impact remains unparalleled, addressing racial prejudice, and introduced a bi-racial cast to Broadway at its premiere while also pointing the way toward a new synthesis between music and spectacle."
