The run closed May 16, 1954
- Opened
- May 5, 1954
- Closed
- May 16, 1954
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 508th 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 | |
| 1948 | City Center Revival | 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 it68 named
Boris Aplon
Benjamin Bajorek
Ann Barry
Marilyn Bladd
Eugene S Brice
Ginger Brooks
Doryce Brown
Joanne Budill
Georgianna Catal
Claudia Crawford
Dale Dennard
Dawin Emanuel
John Fleming
Sarah Floyd
Barbara Ford
Mareda Gaither
Ellen Gleason
Russell Goodwin
Leonard Grinnage
Lawrence Haynes
Laurel Hurley
Ida Johnson
Charles Kuestner
Milton Lyon
James Martindale
Sheila Mathews
William Mcdaniel
Deann Mears
Roland Miles
Meri Miller
Dorothy Mirr
John Neilsen
Arthur Newman
Adele Newton
Joan Nickel
Helen Phillips
Benjamin Plotkin
Madeline Porter
Thomas R Powell
William W Reynolds
Gloria Sacks
Bonnie Sawyer
Peg Shirley
Bill Smith
Barbara Sohmers
Christine Spencer
William Starling
Joseph Tanner
Frederick Thomas
Greta Thormsen
Deloyd Tibbs
Rodester Timmons
Clyde Turner
Rose Virga
Gloria Wynder
13 of these 68 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 55 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.
Creative team
- Director
- William Hammerstein
- Producer
- New York City Center Light Opera Company
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- 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.