Showboat
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Showboat: Music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. First performed on Broadway December 27, 1927, running for one and a half years. A film version released by MGM in 1951 was viewed for this assignment. The cultural influences that have shaped American musical theater have naturally varied from one era to another. Many of these musicals mirror social norms and mores (Lubbock, 755). The dominant genre that emerged in the middle of the twentieth century was of a musical theater in which the play was the thing and the integration of song, humor, and production numbers into a single and inextricable artistic entity established an authentic musical theatre in the United States. One important musical, v
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