With the exception of "Ol' Man River," the most enduring songs in the score by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein 2d are those that explore love's first stirrings ("Make Believe"), love's tyranny ("Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"), love's exquisite bliss ("You Are Love") and, of course, love gone wrong ("Bill"). Its characters - Gaylord Ravenal, the rakish riverboat gambler in the top hat Magnolia, the sweet innocent he marries, then deserts, and even Julie, the mulatto whose life spirals into the gutter after she is barred from the show boat - have long passed for the most romantic of figures.
In the popular consciousness, "Show Boat" is the great American musical about the tumultuousness of love, played out against the majestic Mississippi River and the big-shouldered city of Chicago.
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