
Edna Ferber and “Show Boat”: From Small Town Bath to The Lights of Broadway.
The musical version of Edna Ferber’s novel Show Boat had its Broadway premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 27,1927. Composer Jerome Kern and Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II adapted Edna Ferber’s 1926 eponymous novel to the stage. But the inspiration for Show Boat