Crucible, Sheffield Daniel Evans's production of the 20th-century musical classic is unmissableThe star of Show Boat is, surely, the Mississippi river, its rolling presence famously extolled in one of the 1927 musical's hit numbers: Ol' Man River. Written for Paul Robeson and sung by him in the 1936 film, it has been identified with that great American ever since. Here, Emmanuel Kojo makes the song his own. In a dire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AM on December 20, 2015