Show Boat

A hundred years after it first shook Broadway, Show Boat still has things to say. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's landmark American musical comes to Steinmetz Hall in a semi-staged concert production — with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in the pit and a combined chorus drawn from Opera Orlando and Bethune-Cookman University. It is a story about the length of a life — the dazzling beginning, the long complicated middle, the grace it ta...