<cite>Show Boat</cite> at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, reviewed by Paul Harris
Signature Theater specializes in right-sizing hefty musicals for today's budgets, as with <cite>Les Miserables</cite> last season and earlier with Rodgers and Hammerstein's <cite>Allegro</cite>. Its latest undertaking is Hammerstein and Kern's 1927 staple <cite>Show Boat</cite>, reduced from 48-plus performers to a manageable 25 and staged on a modest set without a paddlewheel in sight. While the resulting production…