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Show boat

Title: Show boat [videorecording] / LIVENT (U.S.) Inc. presents ; music by Jerome Kern ; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on the novel 'Show Boat' by Edna Ferber ; choreography by Susan Stroman ; directed by Harold Prince ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
Publication: New York, c1995.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Videodiscs 1 and 2	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOV 1817 Videodiscs 1 and 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

2 videodiscs (DVD) (169 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

Showboat

Subject

Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 > Adaptations
Gamblers > Drama
Man-woman relationships > Drama
Race relations > Drama
Showboats > 19th century > Drama
Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
Theatrical productions > New York (State) > New York > 1991-2000

Genre/Form

Musicals.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Production design by Eugene Lee ; costume design by Florence Klotz ; lighting design by Richard Pilbrow ; sound design by Martin Levan ; production musical supervisor, Jeffrey Huard ; orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and William David Brohn ; dance music arranged by David Krane ; musical director/conductor, Derek Bate ; assistant to Mr. Prince, Ruth Mitchell ; prod. stage manager, Randall Buck.

Performer (note)

John McMartin, Elaine Stritch, Rebecca Luker, Mark Jacoby, Lonette McKee, Joel Blum, Dorothy Stanley, Gretha Boston, Doug LaBrecque, Michel Bell, Tammy Amerson, David Bryant, Jack Dabdoub, Lorraine Foreman, Mike O'Carroll, Sheila Smith, Ralph Williams, Bob Walton, Lorna Hampson, David Earl Hart, Larissa Auble, Danielle Greaves, Michael Scott, Louise-Marie Mennier, Karen Curlee, Kim Lindsay, Van Abrahams, Timothy Albrecht, Kevin Bagby, Hal Beasley, Timothy Robert Blevins, Joseph Cassidy, Roosevelt André Credit, Michelle Dawson, Debbie de Coudreaux, Jose Garcia, Ron Gibbs, Steve Girardi, Julia Gregory, Jeff Hairston, Linda Hardwick, Richard L. Hobson, Michel LaFlèche, Karen Lifshey, Kimberley Michaels, Panchali Null, Jeanette Palmer, Amy Jo Phillips, Catherine Pollard, Jimmy Rivers, Alonzo Saunders, Jill Slyter, Laurie Walton, Cheryl Warfield, Joseph Webster, Jo Ann Hawkins White, Dathan B. Williams, Darlene B. Young, Kimberly Jean Brown, Joran Corneal, Edwin Hodge, Imani Parks.

Event (note)

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Gershwin Theatre, New York, N.Y., July 15, 1995.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the financial assistance of LIVENT Inc. and the Estate of the Authors.

Call Number

NCOV 1817

OCLC

NYPG05-F10225

Title

Show boat [videorecording] / LIVENT (U.S.) Inc. presents ; music by Jerome Kern ; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on the novel 'Show Boat' by Edna Ferber ; choreography by Susan Stroman ; directed by Harold Prince ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

Imprint

New York, c1995.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Production design by Eugene Lee ; costume design by Florence Klotz ; lighting design by Richard Pilbrow ; sound design by Martin Levan ; production musical supervisor, Jeffrey Huard ; orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and William David Brohn ; dance music arranged by David Krane ; musical director/conductor, Derek Bate ; assistant to Mr. Prince, Ruth Mitchell ; prod. stage manager, Randall Buck.

Cast

John McMartin, Elaine Stritch, Rebecca Luker, Mark Jacoby, Lonette McKee, Joel Blum, Dorothy Stanley, Gretha Boston, Doug LaBrecque, Michel Bell, Tammy Amerson, David Bryant, Jack Dabdoub, Lorraine Foreman, Mike O'Carroll, Sheila Smith, Ralph Williams, Bob Walton, Lorna Hampson, David Earl Hart, Larissa Auble, Danielle Greaves, Michael Scott, Louise-Marie Mennier, Karen Curlee, Kim Lindsay, Van Abrahams, Timothy Albrecht, Kevin Bagby, Hal Beasley, Timothy Robert Blevins, Joseph Cassidy, Roosevelt André Credit, Michelle Dawson, Debbie de Coudreaux, Jose Garcia, Ron Gibbs, Steve Girardi, Julia Gregory, Jeff Hairston, Linda Hardwick, Richard L. Hobson, Michel LaFlèche, Karen Lifshey, Kimberley Michaels, Panchali Null, Jeanette Palmer, Amy Jo Phillips, Catherine Pollard, Jimmy Rivers, Alonzo Saunders, Jill Slyter, Laurie Walton, Cheryl Warfield, Joseph Webster, Jo Ann Hawkins White, Dathan B. Williams, Darlene B. Young, Kimberly Jean Brown, Joran Corneal, Edwin Hodge, Imani Parks.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Gershwin Theatre, New York, N.Y., July 15, 1995.

Funding

Recorded with the financial assistance of LIVENT Inc. and the Estate of the Authors.

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Added Author

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show boat.

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960, librettist.

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960, lyricist.

Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.

Stroman, Susan, choreographer.

Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, director.

Lee, Eugene, 1939- set designer.

Klotz, Florence, costume designer.

Pilbrow, Richard, lighting designer.

Levan, Martin, sound designer.

Huard, Jeffrey, production musical supervisor.

Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981, orchestrations.

Brohn, William D., orchestrations.

Krane, David, 1953- arranger of music.

Bate, Derek, conductor.

Mitchell, Ruth, 1919-2000, production personnel.

Buck, Randall, production stage manager.

McMartin, John, performer.

Stritch, Elaine, performer.

Luker, Rebecca, performer.

Jacoby, Mark, performer.

McKee, Lonette, performer.

Blum, Joel, performer.

Stanley, Dorothy, performer.

Boston, Gretha, performer.

LaBrecque, Doug, performer.

Bell, Michel, performer.

Amerson, Tammy, performer.

Bryant, David, performer.

Dabdoub, Jack, performer.

Foreman, Lorraine, performer.

O'Carroll, Mike, performer.

Smith, Sheila, 1933- performer.

Williams, Ralph, performer.

Walton, Bob, 1960- performer.

Hampson, Lorna, performer.

Hart, David Earl, performer.

Greaves, Danielle Lee, performer.

Scott, Michael, performer.

Mennier, Louise-Marie, performer.

Curlee, Karen, performer.

Lindsay, Kim, performer.

Abrahams, Van, performer.

Albrecht, Timothy, performer.

Bagby, Kevin, performer.

Beasley, Hal, performer.

Blevins, Timothy Robert, performer.

Cassidy, Joseph, performer.

Credit, Roosevelt, performer.

Dawson, Michelle, performer.

de Coudreaux, Debbie, performer.

Garcia, Jose, performer.

Gibbs, Ron, performer.

Girardi, Steve, performer.

Gregory, Julia, performer.

Hairston, Jeff, performer.

Hardwick, Linda, performer.

Hobson, Richard L., performer.

LaFlèche, Michel, performer.

Lifshey, Karen, performer.

Michaels, Kimberley, performer.

Null, Panchali, performer.

Palmer, Jeanette, performer.

Phillips, Amy Jo, performer.

Pollard, Catherine, performer.

Rivers, Jimmy, performer.

Saunders, Alonzo, performer.

Slyter, Jill, performer.

Walton, Laurie, performer.

Warfield, Cheryl, performer.

Webster, Joseph, performer.

White, Jo Ann Hawkins, performer.

Williams, Dathan B., performer.

Young, Darlene B., performer.

Auble, Larissa, performer.

Brown, Kimberly J., performer.

Corneal, Joran, performer.

Hodge, Edwin, performer.

Parks, Imani, performer.

Stucker, Richard, videographer.

Corwin, Betty L.

LIVENT (U.S.) Inc, producer.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Research Call Number

NCOV 1817

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