Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. One notable exception is the song 'Bill', which was originally written for Kern in 1918 by P. G. Wodehouse but reworked by Hammerstein for Show Boat, and two songs not by Kern and Hammerstein that are always interpolated into American stage productions of the show: 'Goodbye, My Lady Love' by Joseph Howard and 'After the Ball' by Charles K. Harris. Show Boat is based on a 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber, and is generally considered to be the first true American 'musical play', as a dramatic form with popular music, separate from operettas, the light musical comedies of the Gay Nineties and the early years of the 20th century (e.g., Florodora), and the 'Follies'-type musical revues that preceded it. In many ways, it took the plot and character-centered 'Princess Musicals' that Kern had developed with Bolton and Wodehouse the previous decade and broadened the scope. However, George S. Kaufman and George Gershwin's Strike Up the Band, which previewed earlier that year, clearly made similar leaps, although its subject matter was satirical and farcical, and unlike the 'Princess Theatre' musicals, Show Boat was sentimental and somewhat tragic; it was also created in the style of a musical epic, rather than an intimate show with two sets and only a few characters.
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The Commonwealth of Virginia is a South Atlantic state historically considered part of the Southern region of the United States. Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the Virgin Queen, this commonwealth was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. Virginia was the first part of the Americas to be continuously inhabited by British colonists from its founding as a European colony up to the American Revolution. It included area explored by the 1584 expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh along the coast of North America, and at one time it also included Bermuda (or Virgineola). The London Virginia Company became incorporated as a joint stock company by a proprietary charter drawn up on April 10, 1606. The charter granted lands stretching from approximately the 34th parallel (North Carolina) north to approximately the 45th parallel (New York) and from the Atlantic Ocean westward (although the Third Charter of 1612 extended its boundaries far enough across the Atlantic to incorporate Bermuda, which the company had been in possession of since 1609). The capital is Richmond and the most populous city is Virginia Beach. Virginia is known as the 'Mother of Presidents', because it is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson), exceeded by no other state. Most of the United States' early presidents were from the state. Virginia has also been known as the 'Mother of States' (sometimes 'M
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