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
