THEATER: 'Show Boat' sails to lush grandeur

Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, I gotta love "Show Boat" 'til I die/Can't help lovin' dat show of mine. Oh, listen sister, I really love the Sig's "Show Boat" — but I can't tell you why: The set evokes not a gingerbread-house-fancy showboat but rather an old barn with peeling paint; some of the actors seem either out of breath or miscast; and director Eric Schaeffer's cuts streamline the musical, but often at the expense of character development and richness of plot. The 1927 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical, with its lavish score, is almost an embarrassment of ...

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