SHOW BOAT - Quotes Flashcards
“Pete – if Steve ever knew about your sending me that gold pin, I declare he’d just about beat you to death.”
Julie
“Oh, Cap’n Andy, if Julie goes, will you give me a chance at the leads? I’d love to get a crack at a serious part. I’d be a sensation in ‘drammer.’
Ellie
“I’m not going to hurt her, you fool – leave me be – I know what I’m doing – Somebody go out and keep them away a minute. It won’t hurt much, darling…”
Steve
“That’s show business for you. I’ve been trouping up and down this river for twelve years and nobody ever heard me. This Ravenal has been acting for exactly three weeks and they make a star out of him.”
Frank
Name the character. With Frank’s sudden and fearful departure from the show boat’s production of THE PARSON’S BRIDE, this character concludes the play for the audience, enacting all the parts. This becomes a tour-de-force moment for the actor playing this role.
Cap’n Andy
“Are you going to see your daughter standin’ here, talkin’ to a murderer?”
Parthy
“A gambler is what he is! Ten years, on and off, they been comin’ here. Right after the World’s Fair they started. Each time they’d been livin’ here for a couple months until some fine night he’d come in with his pockets stuffed with greenbacks. ‘Here’s the money I owe you,’ he’d say. ‘We’re movin’ to other quarters.’ Then they’d wake up the little girl - even if it be in the middle of the night and off they’d go, bag and baggage to the Sherman House!” (name character’s occupation OR name)
Land lady
The following quote is from a letter which is read aloud in SHOW BOAT. Name the character who wrote the letter: “Dearest – By the time this letter reaches you, I shall be on a train, bound God knows where. There is nothing left to pawn, and no more friends to borrow from. I am enclosing two hundred dollars. This will let Kim finish her term at the convent. Then you can both go to your parents.”
Gaylord Ravenal
Name the character whose abrupt departure from the Trocadero Restaurant in Chicago allows Magnolia to get hired for a singing job there.
Julie
Name the song which Magnolia uses as her audition song at the Trocadero.
“Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man”
Name the song which Magnolia uses for her performance debut on New Year’s Eve at the Trocadero. Coincidentally, Captain Andy happens to be in the audience that evening, and he encourages the audience to sing with Magnolia.
“After the Ball”
When Julie sings “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” in the kitchen pantry scene, one of the characters reveals that the song is popular with African Americans, and that it’s odd for Julie to know the song. Name the character who makes that observation.
Queenie
The song “Bill” is regarded as a classic ‘torch’ song, yet in actuality, the lyric doesn’t say anything about unhappiness in love. True or false?
True
The character Steve does not appear in Act II of SHOW BOAT. True or False?
True
Name the song which is a thematic foreshadowing of the trouble about to fall upon the showboat family.
Mis’ry’s Comin’ Aroun’
