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Porgy and Bess

Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: DuBose Hayward and Ira Gershwin
Book: DuBose Hayward
Notes:
Production Year: 1977
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

Gwendolyn Shepherd
Maria/Ensemble
Wilma Shakesnider
Serena
Wardell Woodard
Mingo/Ensemble
Michael Smartt
Ensemble/Undertaker/Understudy for Porgy, Crown
Hansford Rowe
Detective
Daniel Washington
Ensemble/Understudy for Porgy
Jubilant Sykes
Jake/Ensemble
Barbara Louise Young
Ensemble/Understudy for Annie
Andrew Smith
Crown
Rodrick T. Ross
Robbins/Ensemble
John B. Ross
Coroner
Mervin Bertel Wallace
Peter/Ensemble
Loretta Giles
Strawberry Woman/Ensemble/Understudy for Lily
William Gammon
Policeman/Understudy for Detective and Coroner
Shirley Baines
Annie/Serena/Ensemble
Barbara Buck
Lily/Ensemble/Understudy for Strawberry Woman
Vanessa Ayers
Ensemble/Understudy for Maria
Kenneth Bates
Ensemble/Understudy for Peter
Raymond Bazemore
Frazier/Ensemble
Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Bess
Earl Baker
Ensemble
Paul Connelly
Jasbo Brown
Eric Graham
Scipio
Henrietta Davis
Clara/Ensemble
Earl Grandison
Ensemble/Understudy for Frazier, Undertaker
Donnie Ray Albert
Porgy
Elizabeth Graham
Clara
Delores Ivory-Davis
Serena
Christal Lockley
Ensemble
Naomi Moody
Bess
Donald Walter Kase
Ensemble/Understudy for Jim, Undertaker
Barbara Mahajan
Ensemble
Loretta Holkmann
Ensemble
Janet Jordan
Ensemble/Understudy for Strawberry Woman
Gail Nelson
Bess
Dwight Ransom
Ensemble
George Robert Merritt
Crown
Patricia Lynn McDermott
Ensemble
Alma Johnson
Ensemble/Understudy for Clara
Margery A. Medina
Ensemble
Diane Matthew
Ensemble
Hartwell Mace
Jim/Ensemble
André Love
Policeman
Robert Mosley
Porgy
Bruce A. Hubbard
Porgy/Jake
Joanne Jackson
Maria
Lou Ann Pickett
Ensemble/Understudy for Serena
Ronald E. Richardson
Sportin' Life/Understudy for Robbins/Ensemble
Larry Marshall
Sportin' Life