Bob May has 50 years experience in the performing arts and business in Southern California. He has been a stage and film actor and director. He has also been a producer, business consultant, ...
“Show Boat,” which opened Thursday at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, was revolutionary when it first opened in 1927, bringing together a serious story and songs that moved that story along. Today, it can ...
Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. As with all Whale films, Show Boat is an overt theater piece, but here Whale is at his absolute best, because he’d rarely — if ...
Does "Show Boat" belong in the opera house? Well, of course it does - as long as it's done with the kind of theatrical and musical flair that the San Francisco Opera lavishes on its current production ...
A cast of 67, an orchestra of 54, and a children's choir -- what is this, the Ziegfeld Follies? Well, almost. It was Florenz Ziegfeld who in 1927 temporarily forsook presenting scantily clad chorines ...
Show Boat started beguiling audiences back in 1927, when it was first brought to the Broadway stage after a Philadelphia tryout. Since then, in many legit versions and in two previous film treatments, ...