sentences:  Darktown Follies became one of the landmark shows at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem.While Vodery did compose the music for the show "From Dixie to Broadway" (1924), he is most famous for the vocal and choral arrangements that he created for the original Broadway stage production of the classic musical "Show Boat" (1927).His arrangements for the show were used again in the London production of the show (1928), and the first revival on Broadway (1932), as well as in both the Universal Pictures film version (1936), and the prologue to the part-talkie 1929 film version (also by Universal) of Edna Ferber's novel, on which the show is based.