West End's Show Boat Revival Sets Closing Date
The West End revival of Show Boat, which opened to stellar reviews on April 25, will close on August 27. The transfer of Daniel Evans’ Sheffield Crucible production is playing at the New London Theatre. With music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber, the tuner follows the lives of three generations of performers, stagehands and dock workers…