The run closed September 19, 1948
- Opened
- September 7, 1948
- Closed
- September 19, 1948
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 563rd 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 | Ziegfeld Theatre Revival · Hassard Short | 418 perf. |
| 1946 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 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 it32 named
Clare Alden
Gordon Alexander
Fred Ardath
Seldon Bennett
King Brill
Fred Brookins
Pamela Caveness
Danice Dodson
Robert Fleming
Sarah Floyd
Howard Frank
Ruth Gates
Billy House
Elaine Hume
Ann Lloyd
Assota Marshall
Albert Mccary
Walter Mosby
Sylvia Myers
Gerald Prosk
Walter Russell
Norwood Smith
William C Smith
George Spellman
Janet van Derveer
Lorraine Waldman
6 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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
- Producer
- Richard Rodgers
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.