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Show Boat – Photo Feature

The Production Company’s second offering for 2014 is Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern’s seminal musical Show Boat, starring Chrissy O’Neill, Gareth Keegan and Alinta Chidzey.

With themes of racial prejudice and tragic love, it follows the lives of a family of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi river show boat. Show Boat is famous for exquisite songs like ‘Make Believe’, ‘Bill’, ‘Life Upon the Wicked Stage’, ‘Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man’ and ‘Ol’ Man River’.

This special photo feature was captured by Belinda Strodder for AussieTheatre.

Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Christina O'Neill and Andrew Broadbent in Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Christina O'Neill in Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Gareth Keegan and Alinta Chidzey in Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Glen Hill in Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder
Showboat. Image by Belinda Strodder

Showboat is Playing at Arts Centre Melbourne until 24 August.

Book tickets here

Erin James

Erin James is AussieTheatre.com's former Editor in Chief and a performer on both stage and screen. Credits include My Fair Lady, South Pacific and The King and I (Opera Australia), Love Never Dies and Cats (Really Useful Group), Blood Brothers (Enda Markey Presents), A Place To Call Home (Foxtel/Channel 7) and the feature film The Little Death (written and directed by Josh Lawson).

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