Show Boat: the classic musical still shipshape after all these years
Through intelligent handling of its racial themes, Daniel Evans's revival has steered this much-loved 1927 show smoothly into the modern ageWhat is it about Show Boat? Why is it that a musical written in 1927 still has such a hold on our affections? Watching Daniel Evans's superlative five-star revival, which has sailed triumphantly from the Sheffield Crucible to the New London theatre, I began to get an answer. Show…