Show Boat was everything they hoped to create and more.įirst and foremost, Show Boat was filled with great tunes, tunes with lyrics that captured and propelled the special drama of the story, none more powerful than "Ol' Man River." Kern and Hammerstein's show wouldn't be just another musical it would be a drama with music. Kern assured her that he and Hammerstein would concentrate on bringing Ferber's complex story to life in music, a story line that included dramatic elements hitherto unexplored seriously in musical theater, especially racism and infidelity. He and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) agreed to write a new kind of show, one that would forever change the face of American musicals.
It was composer Jerome Kern (1885-1945) who convinced her otherwise. Ferber was worried that her story would be subjected to the same fluffy and frivolous treatment so popular in the revues and light operas of the day. Indeed, she expressed grave reservations about having it set for the musical stage post-World War I Broadway musicals had been "suffering from sameness and tameness" according to Stanley Green, author of Broadway Musicals, Show by Show. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Edna Ferber, author of the 1926 novel Show Boat, didn't like the idea of a musical adaptation of her book. from the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber (1885-1968) Mystery always lay just around the corner of the next bend." The river curved and twisted and turned and doubled. He then goes on to relate that Carl Hentschel ('Harris') was accused of being a German during the First World War (he was actually a Pole), that George Wingrave ('George') went on to become a bank manager, and that he wrote the book after returning from his honeymoon.But ol' man river, he jus' keeps rollin' along."
The narrator talks about the book's original appearance in Home Chimes and the excision of the serious travelogue parts by the magazine's editor. Although the film follows the book's plot faithfully, it ends with an epilogue about the real-world events that shaped it.
The film is narrated in first-person by Curry playing Jerome.
Michael Palin appeared in this film just as he was establishing his post- Monty Python career, and the film has "glints of Python-like silliness throughout". It is based on the 1889 novel Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat is a 1975 BBC comedy film adapted by Tom Stoppard, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin, and Stephen Moore.
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