The run closed January 4, 1947
- Opened
- January 5, 1946
- Closed
- January 4, 1947
- Performances
- 418
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ziegfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 71st 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 | Casino Theatre Revival | 180 perf. |
| 1932 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 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 it128 named
Jerome Addison
Gilbert Adkins
Carmine Alexandria
Robert Allen
Betty Barker
Ivory Bass
William Bender
Seldon Bennett
Janice Bodenhoff
Thomas Bowman
Tom Bowman
Grace Brenton
Robert Bulger
Ralph Chambers
Edward Chappel
Vivian Cherry
William Cole
Clarise Crawford
Erno Czako
Jack Daley
Terry Dawson
Billy de Forest
Richard di Silvera
Andrea Downing
Sara Floyd
Howard Frank
Lydia Fredericks
Adah Friley
Dolores Gamble
Roland Gamble
John Garth Iii
Betty Jane Geiskopf
Thomas W Gomez
Marion Hairston
George H Hall
Katie Hall
Carol Harriton
Edward Hayes
Vickie Henderson
Sheila Hogan
Marion Holaves
Eddie Howland
Jean Jones
Elmira Jones Bey
Frances Joslyn
Charlotte Junius
Audrey Keane
Elana Keller
Nancy Kenyon
Robert Kimberly
James Lapsley
Ora Leak
Gerard Leavitt
Carol Lewis
Olga Lunick
Alyce Mace
Iris Manley
Bowling H Mansfield
Claude Marchant
Assotta Marshall
Linda Mason
Albert Mccary
William Mcdaniel
William Miller
Scott Moore
Walter Mosby
Nick Nadeau
Joe Nash
Billy O Connor
Ethel Owen
Miriam Quinn
Clarence Redd
Jean Reeves
Jeanne Reeves
Eulabel Riley
Duncan Scott
Max Showalter
Stanley Simmons
Frederica Slemons
William C Smith
William Sol
Eugene Steiner
Sybil Stocking
Agnes Sundgren
Alma Sutton
Charles Tate
Viola Taylor
Bettina Thayer
Yvonne Tibor
Rodester Timmons
Willie Torpey
David Trimble
Fannie Turner
William Weber
Henry Wessel
Ethel Brown White
Evelyn Wick
Francisco Xavier
Harry Asmus
Herbert Bennettson
Kenneth Demeaux
Gene Ferguson
Joan Jackson
Michael Lee
Christina Lind
Marcia Maier
Earl Redding
Frances Schneider
Fred Thomas
Grace Varick
William Vaux
Tivis Wicker
Lavinia Williams
15 of these 128 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 113 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
Ralph Dumke Cap'n Andy Hawks
Jan Clayton Magnolia Hawks
Charles Fredericks Gaylord Ravenal
Carol Bruce Julie La Verne
Robert Allen Steve Baker
Ethel Owen Parthenia Ann "Parthy" Hawks
Seldon Bennett Pete
Kenneth Spencer Joe
Helen Dowdy Queenie
Buddy Ebsen Frank Schultz
Collette Lyons Ellie
Alyce Mace (Young Kim) Kim
Scott Moore 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
- Director
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Hassard Short
- Producer
- Jerome Kern
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.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.