The run closed October 22, 1932
- Opened
- May 19, 1932
- Closed
- October 22, 1932
- Performances
- 180
- Previews
- 0
- Theatre
- Casino Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 139th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Show Boat 11 more that season
| 1927 | Ziegfeld Theatre Original · Zeke Colvan | 572 perf. |
| 1928 | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Transfer | |
| 1932 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1946 | Ziegfeld Theatre Revival · Hassard Short | 418 perf. |
| 1946 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1948 | City Center Revival | 15 perf. |
| 1954 | City Center Revival · William Hammerstein | 15 perf. |
| 1983 | Uris Theatre Revival · Michael Kahn | 73 perf. |
| 1994 | Gershwin Theatre Revival · Harold Prince | 947 perf. |
| 1998 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2016 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it92 named
Bessie Allison
Bertha Fitzhugh Baker
Rachel Beech
J Mardo Brown
A Alan Campbell
Billie Campbell
Mamie Cartier
Willy Lou Chalfant
Laura Clairon
Catherine Clark
Walter Costello
Jack Daley
Charles Davis
Henry Davis
Dorothy Denese
Leon Diggs
Evelyn Eaton
William Ehlers
Caja Eric
Robert Faricy
Estelle Floyd
Dell Fradenburg
John Fredrik
Ray Giles
Blanche Glenn
Thomas Gunn
Marion Hairston
Edgar Hall
Annie Hart
William Haskins
Mae Haygood
Mari Hellgren
Eunice Holmes
Maurine Holmes
Rhogenia Jamison
J Louis Johnson
Charlotte Junius
Tana Kamp
V Anne Kaye
Angeline Lawson
James Lillard
Henrietta Lovelace
Herbert Lyle
Pat Mann
Rose Mariella
Richard Mcallister
Dolly Mccormick
James Mckay
John Mobley
Ethel Moses
Lucia Moses
Joseph Olney
Ann Lee Patterson
Pauline Pennell
Inez Persand
Lancelot Pinard
Hattie King Reavis
Wilburn Riviere
Paul Robeson
Elsie Rossi
Jennie Salmons
Earle Sanborn
Mildred Schwenke
Phil Sheridan
Maude Simmons
Charles Spencer
James Swift
Wen Talbert
Lucille Taylor
Wynn Terry
Tillie Thomas
Archie Thomson
Lee Timmans
Gladstone Waldrip
Gertrude Walker
Billie Wallace
Elida Webb
Charles Willis
Stella Bailey
George Blackwood
Robert Raines
11 of these 92 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 81 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters13 roles recorded
Charles Winninger Cap'n Andy Hawks
Norma Terris Magnolia Hawks
Dennis King Gaylord Ravenal
Helen Morgan Julie La Verne
Charles Ellis Steve Baker
Edna May Oliver Parthenia Ann "Parthy" Hawks
James Swift Pete
Paul Robeson Joe
Tess Gardella Queenie
Sammy White Frank Schultz
Eva Puck Ellie
Evelyn Eaton Kim
A. Alan Campbell Windy McClain
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Producer
- Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Show Boat at all.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.