<P> In 1887 , the show boat Cotton Blossom arrives at the river dock in Natchez , Mississippi . The Reconstruction era had ended a decade earlier , and white - dominated Southern legislatures have imposed racial segregation and Jim Crow rules . The boat 's owner , Cap'n Andy Hawks , introduces his actors to the crowd on the levee . A fistfight breaks out between Steve Baker , the leading man of the troupe , and Pete , a rough engineer who had been making passes at Steve 's wife , the leading lady Julie La Verne , a mixed - race woman who passes as white . Steve knocks Pete down , and Pete swears revenge , suggesting he knows a dark secret about Julie . Cap'n Andy pretends to the shocked crowd that the fight was a preview of one of the melodramas to be performed . The troupe exits with the showboat band , and the crowd follows . </P>
<P> In 1887 , the show boat Cotton Blossom arrives at the river dock in Natchez , Mississippi . The Reconstruction era had ended a decade earlier , and white - dominated Southern legislatures have imposed racial segregation and Jim Crow rules . The boat 's owner , Cap'n Andy Hawks , introduces his actors to the crowd on the levee . A fistfight breaks out between Steve Baker , the leading man of the troupe , and Pete , a rough engineer who had been making passes at Steve 's wife , the leading lady Julie La Verne , a mixed - race woman who passes as white . Steve knocks Pete down , and Pete swears revenge , suggesting he knows a dark secret about Julie . Cap'n Andy pretends to the shocked crowd that the fight was a preview of one of the melodramas to be performed . The troupe exits with the showboat band , and the crowd follows . </P>
in the musical show boat what is the name of cap'n andy 's boat
in the musical show boat what is the name of cap'n andy 's boat
Cotton Blossom
Cotton Blossom