Word: boated
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Commonly known as "The Whale," Ingalls Rink's curvy, wooden roof looks like the belly of a large fish or the bottom of a Viking boat...
...shows have got the tony treatment on records: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (1945) and South Pacific (1949), and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956). Now, most impressive of all, comes Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1927 musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat...
With a cast that features opera stars Frederica von Stade (Magnolia), Teresa Stratas (Julie) and Jerry Hadley (Ravenal), as well as a cameo appearance by Lillian Gish as the Lady on the Levee, this Show Boat aims high. "Show Boat was thought of as a dusty operetta, but it is really a moving piece of music drama," says conductor John McGlinn, 35, whose passion for the score drove him to record the Mississippi riverboat musical in its complete 1927 version. McGlinn restored the overture, reinstating three important ensemble numbers and, most controversially, insisting on Hammerstein's original dialogue, which includes...
...recordings have been as musically successful as Show Boat. In West Side Story, Carreras' Hispanic accent was as wrong for the role of the New Yorker Tony as Te Kanawa's British inflection was for the Latino Maria. In South Pacific, the casting of tenor Carreras, in the role created by bass Ezio Pinza, was a bit of commercialism that necessitated transposing the part and ended up distorting the balance. Further, imagining the New Zealand-born Te Kanawa as an all-American Nellie Forbush was a greater suspension of disbelief than many listeners were willing to make. Yet My Fair...
...recording of Jerome Kern' s Show Boat gives the riverboat musical the full operatic treatment. Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas provide the star power for the classic score...