Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Audra McDonald won. 2012 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actor in a Musical : Norm Lewis was nominated but did not win. Outstanding Actress in a Musical : Audra ...

When: 7:30 p.m. today, Friday and May 10; 2 p.m. Sunday Where: Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets May 2 - Is "Porgy and Bess" an opera or a musical? On the ...

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What is the Story of Porgy and Bess? Set in the 1930s in an African-American Charleston neighborhood known as Catfish Row, Porgy and Bess centers on the tragic love story of the cripple beggar ...

"Summertime," composed by George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess, has become one of the most recorded songs in history, with over ...

It was 5° above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to Leningrad, the first American theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Jammed on the station platform to greet them ...

As screen entertainment, Porgy and Bess retains most of the virtues and ... The handling of the music by conductor Andre Previn, including a three-minute overture before the story opens, is ...