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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the book goes on to detail how Show Boat was altered by later directors, c

African Americans in musical theater. --- Music and race. --- Musical theater --- Lyric theater --- Theater --- Race and music --- Race --- African Americans in the musical theater --- History --- Kern, Jerome, --- Ferber, Edna, --- African Americans in musical theater --- Music and race