Scene from Show Boat at Drury Lane, 1928

The auditorium and stage of the Cotton Blossom, as Captain Andy's show boat is called in the musical, Show Boat. Howett Worster and Edith Day playing the third act of the Parson's Bride to the mixed company of black and white, of the levee town of Natchez. Show Boat was originally written by Edna Ferber and adapted by Oscar Hammerstein as a stage musical with the black actor, Paul Robeson starring as Joe

Auditorium Drury Edith Hammerstein Musicals

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