Symphony At Home: Show Boat

June 5, 2020

As part of our continuing commitment to Creating Community Through Music, we’re bringing our concerts to you through our Symphony At Home series! 

This weekend we’re pleased to bring you our Show Boat performance from March 2019!

About the Show

The Gulf Coast Symphony and co-producer Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre continue their tradition of spotlighting a great American musical each year at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall at FSW. Show Boat is fully staged with costumes, sets, and choreography, and performed with the full symphony orchestra. Show Boat 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. This show was the first time that serious black and white characters held the stage on Broadway together as equals. Show Boat gave us such classic songs as “Ol’ Man River”, “Make Believe”, and “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man”.

Originally performed March 23-24, 2019.