Magnolia/Kim

[SamanthaCH]

Posted: 2/24/19 at 4:32pm

Random question for all Show Boat lovers out there: In the original production (1927), Norma Terris played both Magnolia Hawks and her daughter, Kim. I really can't figure out how it worked. Aren't Magnolia and Kim together on stage (along Ravenaw) for the last scene(s) of the musical? 

Also, wouldn't it be wonderful to get a revival back on Broadway? It's been been over 20 years since the last one.

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 2/24/19 at 4:39pm

Kim as an adult only appears in the final scene, where she does her Charleston. She goes offstage and the actress quick-changes back into older Magnolia. In the final moment, when Ravenal is reunited with his daughter, it's an ensemble actress wearing Kim's costume- her face is turned to the back of the stage.

SHOW BOAT is one of my all-time favorites and Magnolia is a dream role, but the show is done so infrequently that I'll probably never get to play her...

[Fosse76]

Posted: 2/24/19 at 11:23pm

Ado Annie D'Ysquith said: "SHOW BOAT is one of my all-time favorites and Magnolia is a dream role, but the show is done so infrequently that I'll probably never get to play her..."

I still think the Prince revival is the best version of the show. 

[EdEval]

Posted: 2/26/19 at 10:07pm

I'd love to see a  revival that restores the Dahomey scene.  It comes near the end of Act1 at the Chicago fair scene.  Blacks portray Africans in native dress and dance/sing to a song Down Dahomey Way. Racist perhaps but historical and could be exciting.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/27/19 at 1:12am

I really liked the recent New York Philharmonic concert adaptation. I’d love to see a full staging of that version.

[Globefan]

Posted: 6/20/20 at 10:54pm

I'd love a new film adaptation which is a real EPIC. 

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 6/24/20 at 4:11am

A new film. They might be concerned about a big budget with low expectation of profit. It may begin to be common practice to film a successful show and release it through DVD or streaming service after a decent interval of time after show closing has passed.

I'm sure this musical will be commemorated in some significant way for its centennial that arrives in 2027.

I bought the $12.28 three disk John McLinn box set a week ago. I was a little surprised to see that it was used, but for that price it should have been expected. All discs and invaluable booklet were like new.

All the work that went into this musical. I like the Dahomey scene, although I wouldn't look for it in a production anytime soon.

Anyway, I've linked the pages in the booklet that describe the two main awesome songs that were cut during out-of-town trials, and whose original orchestrations were though to be lost forever until they turned up in a Secaucus, NJ warehouse. I imagine that future productions will use both Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun' and "It's Getting Hotter in the North. You of course noticed that the opening phrase of the refrain "is a direct paraphrase of Magnolia's piano piece" in Act I.

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[Globefan]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 10:03pm

OlBlueEyes said: "A new film. They might be concerned about a big budget with low expectation of profit. It may begin to be common practice to film a successful show and release it through DVD or streaming service after a decent interval of time after show closing has passed.

I'm sure this musical will be commemorated in some significant way for its centennial that arrives in 2027.

I bought the $12.28 three disk John McLinn box set a week ago. I was a little surprised to see that it was used, but for that price it should have been expected. All discs and invaluable booklet were like new.

All the work that went into this musical. I like the Dahomey scene, although I wouldn't look for it in a production anytime soon.

Anyway, I've linked the pages in the booklet that describe the two main awesome songs that were cut during out-of-town trials, and whose original orchestrations were though to be lost forever until they turned up in a Secaucus, NJwarehouse. I imagine thatfuture productions will use both Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun' and "It's Getting Hotter in the North. You of course noticed that the opening phrase of the refrain "is a direct paraphrase of Magnolia's piano piece" in Act I.

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This would be a partial cast list for a new film adaptation  

Lily James as Magnolia and Kim as an adult 

Lady Gaga as Julie 

Zac Efron as Ravenal 

Viola Davis as Queenie 

Tom Hanks as Cap'n Andy 

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 11:18pm

Globefan said: "This would be a partial cast list for a new film adaptation

Lily James as Magnolia and Kim as an adult

Lady Gaga as Julie

Zac Efron as Ravenal

Viola Davis as Queenie

Tom Hanks as Cap'n Andy"

A white actor in the role of a biracial woman who's ethnicity is a major plot point? Are people still not able to think bigger than that?

(I'd also like to assume that Lady Gaga is self-aware enough to turn that offer down if some producer or director was foolish enough to make it)

[Globefan]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 11:22pm

How about Zendaya as Julie?