The Gershwins' Porgy And Bess comes to Broadway in a stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as Summertime, It Ain't Necessarily So, and I Got Plenty Of Nothing, plus a remarkable cast led by four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald Ragtime, Private Practice, Drama Desk nominee Norm Lewis Les Misrables, Sondheim on Sondheim and two-time Tony nominee David Alan Grier Race, In Living Color.
- 12/11/2011
- by Broadway Beat
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Gershwins' Porgy And Bess comes to Broadway in a stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as Summertime, It Ain't Necessarily So, and I Got Plenty Of Nothing, plus a remarkable cast led by four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald Ragtime, Private Practice, Drama Desk nominee Norm Lewis Les Misrables, Sondheim on Sondheim and two-time Tony nominee David Alan Grier Race, In Living Color.
- 12/7/2011
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Gershwins' Porgy And Bess comes to Broadway in a stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as Summertime, It Ain't Necessarily So, and I Got Plenty Of Nothing, plus a remarkable cast led by four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald Ragtime, Private Practice, Drama Desk nominee Norm Lewis Les Misrables, Sondheim on Sondheim and two-time Tony nominee David Alan Grier Race, In Living Color.Yesterday, the company met the press and treated the crowd to a performance preview. BroadwayWorld was there and brings you full photo coverage of the festivities below...
- 12/7/2011
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Back in August, a controversy arose from a New York Yimes article that explained director Diane Paulus' new vision for the Art production, and soon to be Broadway transfer, of The Gershwins' Porgy And Bess. Specifically in reponse to Paulus' new 'final scene,' which gave the musical a more upbeat ending, theatre legend Stephen Sondheim wrote a memorable letter to the Nyt about his thuoghts on the re-interpretation.
- 11/14/2011
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
On Twitter Watch, Audra McDonald wrote So excited to go to Charleston today. Birthplace of Porgy amp Bess Can't wait to visit Cabbage Row amp the DuBose Heyward House. Pics 2 come.The Gershwins' Porgy And Bess, with a score by George Gershwin, a book by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and lyrics byIra Gershwin and DuBose Heyward, has been adapted by Pulitzer prize-winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks, and two-time Obie winner Diedre L. Murray. A.R.T.'s Artistic Director, Diane Paulus, directs. The Broadway production will star Audra McDonald as Bess, Norm Lewis as Porgy and David Alan Grier as Sporting Life, reprising their A.R.T. roles. The production will begin previews on Saturday, December 17th, 2011 and open on Thursday, January 12th, 2012- running through June 24, 2012. Tickets are now on sale at ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-745-3000...
- 11/10/2011
- by BWW
- BroadwayWorld.com
Velvet-voiced singer, actor and activist who broke new ground for black performers
A handful of decades ago the roles for black performers in Hollywood movies were deliberately kept peripheral to the plots, so that their appearances could easily be edited out for screenings in the American south. Black singers and musicians were barred from taking rooms in the same hotels in which they were performing. Partners in an interracial marriage might decide to leave the Us and move to more hospitable locations, such as Paris, to avoid hate mail and threats. All this and more happened to the singer and actor Lena Horne, who has died aged 92.
Horne not only rose above it all, but also significantly contributed to changing the situation. The velvet-voiced, multi-talented Horne first negotiated, and then resisted, the worst that a racist entertainment industry could throw at her. She rose to its summit as an original...
A handful of decades ago the roles for black performers in Hollywood movies were deliberately kept peripheral to the plots, so that their appearances could easily be edited out for screenings in the American south. Black singers and musicians were barred from taking rooms in the same hotels in which they were performing. Partners in an interracial marriage might decide to leave the Us and move to more hospitable locations, such as Paris, to avoid hate mail and threats. All this and more happened to the singer and actor Lena Horne, who has died aged 92.
Horne not only rose above it all, but also significantly contributed to changing the situation. The velvet-voiced, multi-talented Horne first negotiated, and then resisted, the worst that a racist entertainment industry could throw at her. She rose to its summit as an original...
- 5/10/2010
- by John Fordham
- The Guardian - Film News
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