James Adams Floating Theatre
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James Adams Floating Theatre
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The James Adams Floating Theatre was a floating theater founded in 1914 by James Adams and his wife Gertrude, that toured Chesapeake Bay staging theater in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. It was visited in 1925 by Edna Ferber, who boarded the vessel in Bath, North Carolina, while writing the 1926 novel which inspired Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Broadway show Show Boat. After the James and Beulah retired in 1917, the management of the theater was turned over to Charles Hunter a
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2022-08-23T09:13:09Z
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