Category Archives: Season Announcements

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!                                                                                                                                             

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
• Music Man                        September 12 – 30, 2012

Subscriptions are just $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).  Each show title runs for three weeks.  Subscribers get the best seats at the best price.

For more information on the Showboat Majestic’s 2012 Subscription Season, contact the Box Office at 513.241.6550.  Or check us out on the web at http://www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com

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.

And Our 2012 Season Closer…
THE MUSIC MAN
September 12 – September 30, 2012
Book by  Meredith Willson Music by  Meredith Willson 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.