Show Boat review " slimline musical steams through American history
Crucible, SheffieldThe scaled-down version of Kern and Hammerstein's musical is still a big beast and Daniel Evans' final festive show laudably refuses to beautify an ugly subjectJerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat floats on a deep, wide channel into which operetta, vaudeville, jazz, minstrelsy and medicine shows flowed to create the first great, authentic work of Americana. Yet the effect it produces very …