[Magdalen] Show Boat.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

David, many of these 'classic' musicals live on in theatrical productions 
around the country in 'small scale' community theatre groups and in my area 
in the High Schools... Throughout the greater Houston area HS put on 
musicals every year in the winter, and some of them are huge productions. 
They are typically many of the 'standards'  from the '50s and '60s, so I 
would guess that much of this music is still recognizable in certain 
quarters.

Lynn

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Subject: [Magdalen] Show Boat.

>
> I caught a portion of the PBS presentation of the Kern/Hammerstein 
> musical
> play, "Show Boat" last night.  This was a concertized version, with
> orchestra
> and singers on stage together.  Norm Lewis sang the theme song of  the
> musical play, "Old Man River."  He was interviewed in a little 
> documentary
> at the conclusion, and allowed that he was tense but exhilarated to  sing
> this song "because everyone knows it."
>
> Is this so?  Is it likely that many under, say, 60, are familiar with 
> this
> song or the several other big numbers from the musical?
>
> The popular movie of the musical was in 1951.  The play dates from  1927.
>
> The other revivals strike me as not having a widespread impact.
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> David Strang.