Which 1927 musical features the song ‘Old Man River’?
"version of the song that he recorded post-1946. His 1946 performance of it omitted this section altogether. The Temptations changed any references to the ""white man boss"" to ""rich man boss"", as well as ""Here we all work while the white boys play"" to ""Here we all work while the rich boys play"". In 1988, EMI/Angel Records issued a 3-CD set of the complete score of ""Show Boat"", starring Frederica Von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Teresa Stratas, and Bruce Hubbard, conducted by John McGlinn. On this album, the original 1927 lyrics of ""Ol' Man River"" were heard for the first time"
"New Year's Eve scene features an instrumental version of ""There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"". Some of the following numbers have been cut or revised in subsequent productions, as noted below (the songs ""Ol' Man River"", ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"", and ""Bill"" have been included in every stage and film production of ""Show Boat""): Additional numbers have been included in films and revivals as follows: Ziegfeld previewed the show in a pre-Broadway tour from November 15 to December 19, 1927. The locations included the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., the Nixon Theatre in Pittsburgh, the"
"clearly has an American accent in the film. In the film, the last few lines of the song ""Ol' Man River"" (from ""Show Boat"") are sung by what sounds like a tenor, while the song was intended for bass Paul Robeson and sung in the original production by bass-baritone Jules Bledsoe. Further, the screenplay also gives the impression that the successful original production of ""Show Boat"", which Ziegfeld produced, closed because of the Great Depression. In fact ""Show Boat"" ended its original 1927 run in the spring of 1929 and the stock market crash did not occur until October of"
"it is 1927. An aged Joe on the ""Cotton Blossom"" sings a reprise of ""Ol' Man River"". Cap'n Andy has a chance meeting with Ravenal and arranges his reunion with Magnolia. Andy knows that Magnolia is retiring and returning to the ""Cotton Blossom"" with Kim, who has become a Broadway star. Kim gives her admirers a taste of her performing abilities by singing an updated, Charleston version of ""Why Do I Love You?"" Ravenal sings a reprise of ""You Are Love"" to the offstage Magnolia. Although he is uncertain about asking her to take him back, Magnolia, who has never"
"course show business. In ""Ol' Man River"" the black race was given an anthem to honor its misery that had the authority of an authentic spiritual. Since the musical's 1927 premiere, ""Show Boat"" has both been condemned as a prejudiced show based on racial caricatures and championed as a breakthrough work that opened the door for public discourse in the arts about racism in America. Some productions (including one planned for June 2002 in Connecticut) have been cancelled because of objections. Such cancellations have been criticized by supporters of the arts. After planned performances by an amateur opera company in"
"Show Boat Show Boat is a musical in two acts, with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on Edna Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the ""Cotton Blossom"", a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. Its themes include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love. The musical contributed such classic songs as ""Ol' Man River"", ""Make Believe"", and ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"". The musical was first produced in 1927 by Florenz Ziegfeld. The premiere"
"was not dropped because of any suggestion by him, as is often claimed. The singing voice of Stepin Fetchit, who played Joe in the film, was provided by Jules Bledsoe, the original Joe of the 1927 stage production of the musical. Fetchit mouthed the lyrics to a popular song of the time entitled ""The Lonesome Road"", which, as sung on the soundtrack by Bledsoe, served as the film's finale instead of a final reprise of ""Ol' Man River"", as in the show. The entire stage score, except for ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"", ""Bill"", ""Ol' Man River"", as well as"
"termed Terris ""a revelation""; Winninger ""extraordinarily persuasive and convincing""; and Bledsoe's singing ""remarkably effective"". The character Joe, the stevedore who sings ""Ol' Man River"", was expanded from the novel and written specifically by Kern and Hammerstein for Paul Robeson, already a noted actor and singer. Although he is the actor most identified with the role and the song, he was unavailable for the original production due to its opening delay. Jules Bledsoe premiered the part. Robeson played Joe in four notable productions of ""Show Boat"": the 1928 London premier production, the 1932 Broadway revival, the 1936 film version and a"
"Big River (musical) Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with a book by William Hauptman and music and lyrics by Roger Miller. Based on Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel, ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", it features music in the bluegrass and country styles in keeping with the setting of the novel. The 1985 Broadway production ran for more than 1,000 performances and it remained one of the few very successful American musicals in the mid-1980s among the emerging successes coming from Great Britain. The first productions were staged by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in"
"languages as well as his impressive vocal range. In 1926 he appeared as Tizan in Frank Harling's opera ""Deep River"", and he was the first to perform as Joe in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's ""Show Boat"" in 1927. His role in ""Show Boat"" became his best known role, and he popularized ""Ol' Man River"", a song from the musical. In the Chicago Opera’s production of Verdi's Aida, Bledsoe sang the role of Amonasro. In 1930, Bledsoe attempted to create an original musical setting of Eugene O'Neill's ""The Emperor Jones"", but he lacked the permission of the playwright which"
"""Show Boat"" in his 1977 book ""Show Boat: The History of a Classic American Musical"" nevertheless had nothing but high praise for this sequence. It was staged and directed by an uncredited Roger Edens during an illness of George Sidney, who directed the rest of the film. However, the ""Ol' Man River"" sequence in the 1936 film version, with its tracking pan around the seated, singing figure of Paul Robeson, and its expressionistic montages of field and dock workers performing their tasks, is perhaps even more highly regarded. According to Kreuger, one glaringly unrealistic aspect of the 1951 film was"
"27, 1961, Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall for Martin Luther King, Jr. and led his fellow Rat Pack members and Reprise label mates in boycotting hotels and casinos that refused entry to black patrons and performers. He often spoke from the stage on desegregation and repeatedly played benefits on behalf of King and his movement. According to his son, Frank Sinatra, Jr., King sat weeping in the audience at one of his father's concerts in 1963 as Sinatra sang ""Ol' Man River"", a song from the musical ""Show Boat"" that is sung by an African-American stevedore. His"
"respectively. There are no reliable sales figures that can be used to verify or dispute any of the estimates above. The composition was notably used as a substitute for ""Ol' Man River"" in the finale of the part-talkie 1929 film version of Edna Ferber's novel ""Show Boat"". It was performed onscreen by Stepin Fetchit as the deckhand Joe. Fetchit's singing voice was supplied by bass-baritone Jules Bledsoe, who had played Joe in the original stage version of the musical. The Shilkret autobiography contains a brief account of the motivation for using the song in the film. The song was also"
"TV shows and/or films, notably ""That's Entertainment!"". Warfield played his ""Show Boat"" role in two other productions of the musical – the 1966 Lincoln Center production, and a 1972 production in Vienna. He sang Ol' Man River in three different record albums of the show – the 1951 motion picture soundtrack album on MGM Records, a 1962 studio album featuring Barbara Cook and John Raitt on Columbia Masterworks, and the RCA Victor album made from the Lincoln Center production. He made an appearance on ""The Colgate Comedy Hour"" and on a program called ""TV Recital Hall"" in 1951, the same"
"The Music Man (1962 film) The Music Man is a 1962 American musical film starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith Willson. The film was one of the biggest hits of the year and highly acclaimed critically. In July 1912, a traveling salesman, ""Professor"" Harold Hill (Robert Preston), arrives in River City, Iowa, intrigued by the challenge of swindling the famously stubborn natives of Iowa (""Iowa Stubborn""). Masquerading as a traveling band instructor, Hill plans to con the citizens of"
"Robeson and Brown toured Europe. Essie experienced complications from the birth, and by mid-December, her health had deteriorated dramatically. Ignoring Essie's objections, her mother wired Robeson and he immediately returned to her bedside. Essie completely recovered after a few months. In 1928, Robeson played ""Joe"" in the London production of the American musical ""Show Boat"", at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. His rendition of ""Ol' Man River"" became the benchmark for all future performers of the song. Some black critics were not pleased with the play due to its usage of the word ""nigger"". It was, nonetheless, immensely popular with"
"musical ""Show Boat"", which subverts anti-miscegenation laws, from 1927 until 1946 features the word ""nigger"" as originally integral to the lyrics of ""Ol' Man River"" and ""Cotton Blossom""; although deleted from the cinema versions, it is included in the 1988 EMI recording of the original score. Musical theatre historian Miles Kreuger and conductor John McGlinn propose that the word was not an insult, but a blunt illustration of how white people then perceived black people. Some comedians have broached the subject, almost invariably in the form of social commentary. This was perhaps most famously done by stand-up comedian Chris Rock"
"by Paul Robeson, William Warfield (in the 1951 film version), Bruce Hubbard (on the 1988 three-disc EMI album), and Michel Bell (in the Harold Prince revival of the show), is somewhat melodramatic in the manner of early twentieth-century acting, and Bledsoe rolls all of his ""r""'s, as a baritone might when singing his solos in an oratorio. A recently released album of vintage spiritual recordings features Bledsoe singing ""Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"" in that same style, which demonstrates that it was not unique to his performance of ""Ol' Man River"". Bledsoe was also actually filmed singing the song - his"
"Louisiana 1927 ""Louisiana 1927"" is a 1974 song written and recorded by Randy Newman on the album ""Good Old Boys"". It tells the story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 which left 700,000 people homeless in Louisiana and Mississippi. Sung from the perspective of a nameless resident of the area recounting the flooding of Saint Bernard and Plaquemines parishes during the flood, ""Louisiana 1927"" features lyrics that depict the devastation of the residents of those parishes in the aftermath of the flood. In particular, the narrator lays out the widespread nature of the destruction (""river had busted through clear"
"and continuing on to the end of his career, Paul Robeson changed a few of the lyrics of ""Ol' Man River"" when singing it at recitals, though never in actual stage performances of ""Show Boat"", and not in the 1936 film version. (In addition to the 1928 and 1932 stage productions as well as the 1936 film version, he appeared in a Los Angeles stage revival in 1940). Except for the change of the word ""niggers"" to ""darkies,"" the lyrics of the song as Robeson performed it in the 1936 film version of the show remain exactly as Oscar Hammerstein"
"cowherd; the pipa player appears onstage as a goddess-weaver. The Silver River The Silver River (1997) is an American chamber opera in one act, with music composed by Bright Sheng, and a libretto by the playwright David Henry Hwang. It was first performed at the Santa Fe, New Mexico Chamber Music Festival in 1997. It also has been performed at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina; and in major cities such as New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia (at the Prince Music Theater), and London. ""The Silver River"" is a chamber opera combining Western opera, drama, and dance with Chinese"
"1940 stage revival in Los Angeles. Reviewing the 1932 Broadway revival, the critic Brooks Atkinson described Robeson's performance: ""Mr. Robeson has a touch of genius. It is not merely his voice, which is one of the richest organs on the stage. It is his understanding that gives 'Old Man River' an epic lift. When he sings...you realize that Jerome Kern's spiritual has reached its final expression."" After closing at the Ziegfeld Theatre in 1929, the original production toured extensively. The national company is notable for including Irene Dunne as Magnolia. Hattie McDaniel played Queenie in a 1933 West Coast production,"
"""Ol' Man River"", ""Pick Yourself Up"", ""She Didn't Say Yes"", ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"", ""The Song Is You"", ""They Didn't Believe Me"", ""The Way You Look Tonight"", ""Why Was I Born?"", ""Yesterdays"", ""You Are Love"" and ""Who?"". Jerome Kern Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as ""Ol' Man River"", ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"", ""A Fine Romance"","
"are the same notes as those in the phrase ""Ol' Man River, dat Ol' Man River,"" but inverted. However, ""Cotton Blossom"" was written first, and ""Ol' Man River"" was written only after Kern and Hammerstein realized they needed a song to end the first scene in the show. Hammerstein decided to use the idea of the Mississippi River as a basis for the song and told Kern to use the melody that the stevedores sang in ""Cotton Blossom"" but invert some of it, and slow down the tempo. This inversion gave ""Ol' Man River"" a tragic quality. Beginning about 1938,"
"accomplishment of Ziegfeld's career – the only one of his shows that is regularly performed today."" The score is, arguably, Kern's greatest and includes the well-known songs ""Ol' Man River"" and ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"" as well as ""Make Believe"", ""You Are Love"", ""Life Upon the Wicked Stage"", ""Why Do I Love You"", all with lyrics by Hammerstein, and ""Bill"", originally written for ""Oh, Lady! Lady!"", with lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse. The show ran for 572 performances on Broadway and was also a success in London. Although Ferber's novel was filmed unsuccessfully as a part-talkie in 1929 (using"
"The Silver River The Silver River (1997) is an American chamber opera in one act, with music composed by Bright Sheng, and a libretto by the playwright David Henry Hwang. It was first performed at the Santa Fe, New Mexico Chamber Music Festival in 1997. It also has been performed at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina; and in major cities such as New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia (at the Prince Music Theater), and London. ""The Silver River"" is a chamber opera combining Western opera, drama, and dance with Chinese opera and virtuosic solo playing of the ""pipa"" (Chinese"
"Old Rivers ""Old Rivers"" is a country music song written by Cliff Crofford which tells the story of a man recalling a childhood friendship with an elderly farmer. The song was most famously recorded as a recitation by actor and recording artist Walter Brennan. Released in March 1962, ""Old Rivers"" — prominently featuring The Johnny Mann Singers as the backing choir over Brennan's recitation of the refrain — became a top 5 hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, Easy Listening, and Hot C&W Sides charts by the end of May. The song was also recorded by Jimmy Dean, Dave Dudley"
"and attracted very favorable reviews from ""Variety"". For her final performance, she returned to vaudeville, playing the Palace once more in 1949. Her first performance in the legitimate theater was in the 1921 version of ""George White's Scandals."" But she was best known for her role in the classic stage musical ""Show Boat"" in 1927, where she originated the role of Queenie. She was the only member of the original Broadway cast to appear in blackface; the show featured an African-American chorus. Jules Bledsoe, who originated the role of Joe in the same production and sang ""Ol' Man River"", was"
"Bronxville, New York. He was 43 years old. Ron Richardson Ronald E. Richardson (January 27, 1952 – April 5, 1995) was an American actor and operatic baritone. Richardson began his career in the mid-1970s appearing in regional theater and opera productions. He appeared in several Broadway musicals from 1978-1993, arguably best known for his Tony Award and Drama Desk Award-winning performance of Jim in the 1985 Broadway musical ""Big River"". Richardson was born to William F. and Amanda Richardson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father worked in the meat-packing industry and his mother operated a beauty parlor in their home for"
"The Old Mill The Old Mill is a 1937 ""Silly Symphony"" cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, scored by Leigh Harline, and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937. The film depicts the natural community of animals populating an old abandoned windmill in the country, and how they deal with a severe summer thunderstorm that nearly destroys their habitat. It incorporates the song ""One Day When We Were Young"" from Johann Strauss II's operetta ""The Gypsy Baron"". Like many of the later ""Silly Symphonies"", ""The Old Mill"" was a testing ground for advanced"
"musicality comprised quotes from a bugle call and ""Swanee River."" The tune revived the ragtime fervor that Scott Joplin had begun a decade earlier, and made Berlin a songwriting star. From its first and subsequent releases, the song was near the top of the charts as others sang it: Bessie Smith, in 1927, and Louis Armstrong, in 1937; no. 1 by Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell; Johnny Mercer in 1945; Al Jolson, in 1947 and Nellie Lutcher in 1948. Add Ray Charles's big-band version in 1959, and ""Alexander"" had a dozen hit versions in just under a half century. Initially"
"Billy's passport problems and declares Moon ""harmless."" Moon indignantly pockets Oakleigh's check and refuses to return it. The musical had a tryout in Colonial Theatre (Boston), before opening on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on November 21, 1934. It ran for 420 performances, becoming the fourth longest-running musical of the 1930s, despite the impact of the Great Depression on Broadway patrons' disposable income. Directed by Howard Lindsay with choreography by Robert Alton and sets by Donald Oenslager, it starred Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, William Gaxton as Billy Crocker and Victor Moore as Moonface Martin. Charles B. Cochran, a British"
"him back, and the family returns to the show boat. Joe and the chorus start singing ""Ol' Man River"" as the scenes unfold, then the paddlewheel starts turning in tempo with the music, as the ship heads down river. Julie is shown, viewing from a distance. She had watched the scene from the shadows. The musical numbers in the original production were as follows: The original production ran four-and-a-half hours during tryouts but was trimmed to just over three by the time it got to Broadway. During previews, two songs, ""Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun"" and ""Let's Start the New Year"", were"