Set Model
Object details
| Object type | |
| Parts | This object consists of 6 parts.
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| Brief description | Set model for Show Boat by Lez Brotherston |
| Gallery label | Re:Imagining Musicals, 15th October 2022 - 27th November 2023
Show Boat
Jerome Kern’s and Oscar Hammerstein II’s ground-breaking musical chronicles life aboard the Cotton Blossom, a floating theatre on a steamboat. It was revolutionary for exploring topics like race relations through realistic and three-dimensional characters. Edna Ferber, who wrote the book on which it was based, researched the reality of ‘show boat’ workers in detail including: ‘reading, interviewing, taking notes and making outlines’. For this revival production, Lez Brotherston created an abstract steamer onstage which used different levels to emphasise the hierarchy between races.
Set model for Show Boat
2016
Designed by Lez Brotherston
Materials Plastic, copper metal alloy
Museum no. S.599:1 to 6-2021
Given by the designer
London cast recording of Show Boat
1961
Designed by Reginald Mount
Printing ink on card
Museum no. BMT/2/1/2583
Given by Overtures: The Bunnett-Muir Musical Theatre Archive Trust(2022) |
| Credit line | Given by the designer |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.599-2021 |
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| Record created | May 21, 2021 |
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