Show Boat
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
By Todd Decker32 Alice Dunbar Nelson, a noted black poet, praised Gardella, whom Nelson was unfamiliar with from the vaudeville stage. “A mystery seems to surround 'Queenie.' On the program she is billed as 'Aunt Jemima,' and behind the famous ...
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
By Todd Decker83 Spotted just before Magnolia and Ravenal meet at the water barrel and decide to get mar— ried, the sequence was described as “Dance number (if we have Bill Robinson) .” Without Robinson, this feature would not survive, ...
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
By Todd Deckersixteen and similar cuts in the white chorus, Show Boat played Cleveland and Detroit for a week each, followed by three weeks at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre where astute discounting kept the show alive. A proposed swing through the ...
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Show Boat
By Edna Ferber, Foster HirschHetty Chilson glanced over her shoulder to where the white-coated Negro stood. “Mose, tell Jule I want her. Tell her to bring her receipt book and a pen." Mose ran up the soft-carpeted stairs. You heard a deferential rap at an upper ...
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Show Boat
By Edna Ferber, Foster HirschTells of the romance between an actress on a Mississippi showboat and a handsome gambler, in which they marry, move to Chicago, and face a perilous future.