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Porgy and Bess

Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: DuBose Hayward and Ira Gershwin
Book: DuBose Hayward
Notes:
Production Year: 1964
Synopsis:
Set in 1912 in Charleston, South Carolina, Bess, a woman with a disreputable past, tries to break free of her brutish lover, assisted only by the crippled Porgy.

Cast Member

Role

Ruth Gibbs Tyler
The Eva Jessye Choir
Bill Smillie
Detective
James Wamen
The Eva Jessye Choir
Gordon Watkins
Robbins/The Eva Jessye Choir
Alyce Webb
Annie/The Eva Jessye Choir
Roger Sullivan
Coroner
Eloise Uggams
The Eva Jessye Choir
The Eva Jessye Choir
Residents of Catfish Row, Fisherman, Stevedores, Children, Etc.
William Wright
The Eva Jessye Choir
Catherine Eason
The Eva Jessye Choir
Rhoda Boggs
The Eva Jessye Choir
Africa Hayes
The Eva Jessye Choir
Carole Brice
Maria
Andrew Frierson
Porgy
Helen Dowdy
Lily
Cab Calloway
Sportin' Life
Bob Broadway
The Eva Jessye Choir
Leroy Brodwith
The Eva Jessye Choir
Ruby Greene Aspinwall
The Eva Jessye Choir
Martha Flowers
Bess/Clara
Carrie Glover
The Eva Jessye Choir
Don Forrest
The Eva Jessye Choir
Barbara Smith Conrad
Bess/Clara
Loretta Fowlkes
Serena
George Hall
The Eva Jessye Choir
Beno Foster
Peter, the Honeyman/Eva Jessye Choir
Joseph Attles
Crabman
James Reynolds
Jim/The Eva Jessye Choir
Frederic Martin
The Eva Jessye Choir
Carrington J. Lewis
The Eva Jessye Choir
Philip Hepburn
Mingo/The Eva Jessye Choir
Edward Pierson
Jake
Herman Hemitt
The Eva Jessye Choir
Joseph James
Undertaker/The Eva Jessye Choir
Delores Ivory
The Eva Jessye Choir
Edna Ricks
The Eva Jessye Choir
Alfred Rage
Frazer/The Eva Jessye Choir
Leonard Parker
Crown
Marian Larayne Nettles
The Eva Jessye Choir