Great Performances: Season 18, Episode 4

Show Boat (27 Oct. 1989)

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A stage production of the classic musical, videotaped in front of a live audience at the Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey.

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A stage production of the classic musical, videotaped in front of a live audience at the Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey.

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Although this production still does not include the complete "Mis'ry's Comin' Round", which was cut at Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s orders from the original stage production, it does reinstate the always cut "Let's Start the New Year", and also includes "I Still Suits Me", from the 1936 film version of "Show Boat". See more »

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Pete: Where'd you all get that brooch you're wearing?
Queenie: You mean this scrumptious piece of jewelry?
Pete: Where'd you get it, nigger?
Queenie: It was give to me.
Pete: Who give it to yuh?
Queenie: Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
[aside]
Queenie: That man - askin' me where I gets my jewelry!
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Version of Show Boat (1951) See more »

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Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and P.G. Wodehouse
Sung by Shelly Burch
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The best Showboat production I have seen.
31 March 2007 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

I taped the PBS presentation of the Paper Mill production of Showboat way back when it was presented and I can say without reservation that it is the best production of this classic musical I have seen, better than any on Broadway and especially better than both movie versions. All the cast was excellent, particularly Ellie English as Queenie and P.L. Brown as Joe, Shelly Burch as Julie, Richard White as Gaylord, Rebecca Baxter as Magnolia and Eddie Bracken as Captain Andy. Their change of character from the 1880s to the 1920s was very well done. A real show stopper was the number "Ah Still Suits Me" done by Ellie English and P.L. Brown. Left out of the movies, I appreciated that it was retained and done so well in the Paper Mill production. I no longer have that old VCR that I taped, and am hoping that they will come out with a DVD of it. I would buy it immediately.


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