Broadway History: The Golden Age of the American Book Musical, Part 3 Show Boat
…relationships and interconnecting them in many ways, Hammerstein created a highly complex, realistic and refined book. Story & Soul Expressed through Music & Lyrics Kern, like his partner Hammerstein, was interested in creating a musical where each element was equally important when it came to moving the plot forward and offering audiences a musical that was as dramaturgically sound as a well written drama by Eugene O’Neill. Thus, Kern went about…