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SHOWBOAT
By Oscar Hammerstein II/Jerome Kern
VIDEO: 1936 film with Paul Robeson, Irene Dunne,
Helen Morgan and Allan Jones still incomparable and now commercially
available in a wonderfully restored print; after sixty years, this
grand production still sweeps the competition, both on VIDEO and on
AUDIO! MGM 301757 [G.R.]
AUDIO: EMI: Bruce Hubbard, Frederica Von Stade,
Jerry Hadley, McGlinn conducting; an excellent recording, musically a
tad more faithful to Kern's original than the VIDEO above, superbly
sung; but it's just that tiny extra bit of sheer gut conviction from
Helen Morgan/Allan Jones/Paul Robeson, and so on, in the film that,
in effect, makes this new modern recording merely excellent rather
than overwhelming; stereo [G.R.]
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