The 2011 Season has ended.
The Showboat Announces an All-American 2012 Season
To Celebrate its 90th Anniversary!
Come aboard the Showboat Majestic as she celebrates the 90th season in her legendary career! The summer will feature an All-American slate of musicals and comedies to please every patron - aboard America’s last showboat – a genuine National Historic Landmark! The 2012 season line-up features: Hollywood icons, murderously charming old ladies, a giant of the American musical theater, a couple of little league coaches teaching big league lessons and the fastest-talking traveling salesman ever to hit River City, Iowa! Come join us for a great summer on the River!
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The Showboat Majestic 2012 Subscription Season: Babes In Hollywood May 16 – June 3, 2012 Arsenic and Old Lace June 13 – July 1, 2012 George M! July 11 – July 29, 2012 Rounding Third August 8 – August 26, 2012 The Music Man September 12 – 30, 2012
Subscriptions are now on sale - $75.00 for the entire Five Show Season! Showboat Subscription performances run Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2 pm. (The 2nd Sunday of the run there is also a 7pm performance). Subscribers get the best seats at the best price. Convenient and easy, free ticket exchange. Free, reserved parking in front of the Showboat!
Renew your subscription online here! or become a new subscriber Renewal deadline to guarantee same 2011 seating is Thursday, March 1. Subscription Season Tickets mailed on March 28, 2012. Individual Show Tickets go on sale April 2, 2012. download a form to mail in here - it has all the individual dates listed too. For more information call 513-241-6550. Box office hours Monday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
BABES IN HOLLYWOOD – The Music of Garland and Rooney May 16 – June 3, 2012 Created by David Grapes Get ready to swing, sway and swoon to over 30 of the most glorious songs of the Twentieth Century. Babes in Hollywood salutes the legendary musical careers of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. You’ll thrill to such American classics as "Over the Rainbow," "You Made me Love You," "Easter Parade," "But Not for Me," "The Man Who Got Away," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Meet Me in St. Louis," "That’s Entertainment," "Where or When," "Born in a Trunk," "Yankee Doodle Boy," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Strike up the Band," and many more! Come join us for a great summer on the River!
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE June 13 – July 1, 2012 By Joseph Kesselring We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously "acceptable" roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; the murderous activities of the other brother while younger brother Mortimer is trying to get married to a regular girl! ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is the all-time American comedy classic!
GEORGE M! July 11 – July 29, 2012 Music and Lyrics by George M. Cohan GEORGE M! tells the life story of George M. Cohan, a giant of the American musical theater who gave us such songs as Yankee Doodle Dandy, Over There, You're A Grand Old Flag, and Give My Regards to Broadway,, and who transformed the Broadway variety show into a book-driven musical where song and dance advance plot. We follow him over a 60-year period from his childhood in Rhode Island on the vaudeville circuit with his parents and sister as "The Four Cohans," to New York, where he starts his 25-year absolute reign of the Broadway stage.
ROUNDING THIRD August 8 – August 26, 2012 By Richard Dresser Rounding Third introduces us to two coaches — one a veteran, the other a new recruit — and their markedly different personal circumstances and philosophies about the game. Their clash of styles and wills drives this funny, acerbic and touching play through the bumpy terrain of fatherhood and baseball.
THE MUSIC MAN September 12 – September 30, 2012 Book, Music & Lyrics by Meredith Willson Based on a story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey An affectionate paean to Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize – this despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.
Please Note: Show titles can be subject to change due to availability.