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Ted Sperling conducts Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s musical Show Boat at Avery Fisher Hall featuring a star-studded cast (Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis, Julian Ovenden, Fred Willard, Lauren Worsham).

A new production of Show Boat comes to Melbourne with mixed results.

The arrival of Show Boat at the Washington National Opera this month, after stops in Chicago and Houston, has provoked a certain amount of consternation in operatic circles.

On entering Door One at the Royal Albert Hall and seeing top hats, tails and tap shoes clustered in a doorway, it was time to prepare for an evening of ‘The Broadway Sound’.