The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
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In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
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"From the San Francisco Opera: "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin"
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en
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Eric Owens
Porgy
Laquita Mitchell
Bess
Lester Lynch
Crown
Chauncey Packer
Sportin' Life
Karen Slack
Serena
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Alteouise DeVaughn
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Eric Greene
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Michael Bragg
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A Return Home to Family and Stage (Published 2012) - The New York Times
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It Ain’t Necessarily ‘Porgy’ (Published 2011) - The New York Times
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Anne Brown, Who Was Gershwin’s Bess, Dies at 96 (Published 2009) - The New York Times
Anne Brown, Who Was Gershwin’s Bess, Dies at 96 (Published 2009) The New York Times
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