The run closed June 26, 1983
- Opened
- April 24, 1983
- Closed
- June 26, 1983
- Performances
- 73
- Previews
- 5
- Theatre
- George Gershwin Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 177th 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. |
| 1954 | City Center Revival · William Hammerstein | 15 perf. |
| 1994 | Gershwin Theatre Revival · Harold Prince | 947 perf. |
| 1998 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2016 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it39 named
Lonette Mckee
Avril Gentles
Bruce Hubbard
Vanessa Ayers
P L Brown
Karen Culliver
Michael Pierre Dean
Olivia Detante
Richard Dix
Hal Douglas
Kim Fairchild
Joe Garcia
James Gedge
Michael Gray
Larry Hansen
Randy Hansen
Jacob Mark Hopkin
Lynda Karen
Dale Kristien
Glenn Martin
Linda Milani
Randy Morgan
Gloria Parker
Tracy Paul
Dennis Perren
Leonard Piggee
Veronica Rhodes
Mary Rocco
Alton Spencer
Wayne Turnage
Robert Vincent
Molly Wassermann
Lewis White
Carrie Wilder
Wardell Woodard
4 of these 39 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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
Donald O'Connor Cap'n Andy Hawks
Sheryl Woods Magnolia Hawks
Ron Raines Gaylord Ravenal
Lonette McKee Julie La Verne
Wayne Turnage Steve Baker
Avril Gentles Parthenia Ann "Parthy" Hawks
Glenn Martin Pete
Bruce Hubbard Joe
Karla Burns Queenie
Paul Keith Frank Schultz
Paige O'Hara Ellie
Tracy Paul (Young Kim) Kim
Richard Dix 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
- Michael Kahn
- Choreographer
- Michael Kahn
- Producer
- James M. Nederlander
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.