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Porgy and Bess

Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: DuBose Hayward and Ira Gershwin
Book: DuBose Hayward
Notes:
Production Year: 2014
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

Fred Rose
Policeman/Understudy for Detective
Nathaniel Stampley
Porgy
Soara-Joye Ross
Women of Catfish Row/Understudy for Bess, Mariah, Serena
Danielle Lee Greaves
Mariah
Nkrumah Gatling
Fisherman/Understudy for Jake
William Gilinsky
Understudy for Policeman
Sumayya Ali
Clara/Understudy for Bess
Vanjah Boikai
Swings/Understudy for Jake
Cicily Daniels
Women of Catfish Row/Understudy for Mariah
Adrianna M. Cleveland
Women of Catfish Row/Understudy for Clara, Serena
Dwelvan David
The Crab Man/Understudy for Crown
Denisha Ballew
Serena
Roosevelt André Credit
Fisherman
Tamar Greene
Fisherman
Alvin Crawford
Crown
Dan Barnhill
Detective
Quentin Oliver Lee
Swings/Understudy for Porgy, Crown
Alicia Hall Moran
Bess
Cheryse McLeod Lewis
Swings/Understudy for Bess
Kingsley Leggs
Sportin' Life
James Earl Jones II
Robbins/Understudy for Porgy
David Hughey
Jake
Chauncey Packer
Peter/Understudy for Sportin' Life
Sarita Rachelle Lilly
The Strawberry Woman
Nicole Adell Johnson
Women of Catfish Row
Kent Overshown
Mingo, the undertaker/Understudy for Porgy, Sportin' Life
Lindsay Roberts
Swings/Understudy for Clara