Complex sentence: Julie Dozier is a character in Edna Ferber's 1926 novel "Show Boat", which was the basis for Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's classic musical of the same name, which opened on Broadway on December 27,1927.
Split into simpler sentences: Julie Dozier is a character in Edna Ferber's 1926 novel "Show Boat",. The novel was the basis for Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's classic musical of the same name, which opened on Broadway on December 27,1927.