Which 1927 musical is set aboard the 'Cotton Blossom'?
Showboat Broadway hit, "Show Boat" (1927). Since the box-office success of MGM's 1951 motion picture version of the musical "Show Boat", in which the boat was inaccurately redesigned as a deluxe, self-propelled steamboat, the image of a showboat as a large twin-stacked vessel with a huge paddle wheel at the rear has taken hold in popular culture. Two earlier film versions of "Show Boat" and most stage productions feature a historically accurate vessel, and Edna Ferber's novel on which the musical is based gives a description of the "Cotton Blossom" that accurately reflects the design of a nineteenth-century showboat. Based on
Island Blossom existed since the 1840s. Skippered since 1999 by Corbin Penwell of St. Michaels, Maryland, "Island Blossom" has won a record nine consecutive High Point trophies for the fleet's overall season winner, finishing first overall from 2009-2017 to top the record originally set by Doug Hanks Sr., also aboard "Blossom", between 1981-1986 and matched by Tyler Johnson on "Persistence" from 1998-2003. She is located at St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland. She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Island Blossom The "Island Blossom" is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in 1892, by William Sidney Covington in