Show Boat at Center Stage Theatre

Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, this lyrical masterpiece concerns the lives, loves and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk on the Mississippi, in Chicago and on Broadway (and their life-long friends). The primary plot follows Magnolia, the naive daughter of the show boat captain, as she marries a gambler and moves with him to Chicago. His gambling continues as his debts compound, and soon he deserts her and their young daughter. A subplot concerns the potential arrest o

Authors

• Charles K. Harris
• Edna Ferber
• Jerome Kern
• Joseph E. Howard
• Oscar Hammerstein II
• P. G. Wodehouse