Show Plot Showboat

Authors: Jerome Kern and librettist/lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel

Time Period: 1887 to 1927

Setting: A floating show boat (Cotton Blossom) on the Mississippi River, later moving to Gilded Age Chicago and Broadway in New York City

Summary:

Show Boat follows three generations of showfolk on a Mississippi River floating theater named the Cotton Blossom.