Ooooh…America’s story, it just keeps rollin’ along.

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 takes to keep going. Kern and Hammerstein wrote music for all of it. Not just the moments that shine, but the ones that don't. A hundred years later it still knows something true about what it means to be human "...ooooh, OPERA!”

With stage direction by Roberta Emerson, OPERA America grant recipient and one of Orlando's most versatile theatrical voices, and conductor Dr. Everett McCorvey, founder and music director of the American Spiritual Ensemble who has led two world premieres with the Company, this is the right team to bring Show Boat home. Available as a special event add-on for MainStage subscribers.