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Broadway's Porgy and Bess drops new ending after Stephen Sondheim complains by Matt Trueman

Stephen Sondheim writes to New York Times after Diane Paulus's reframed version of 1935 opera suggested it needed a 'happy ending'The forthcoming Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess has dropped plans for a new happy ending, following public criticism from composer Stephen Sondheim.Director Diane Paulus, whose 2009 production of Hair transferred to the West End after a critically-acclaimed Broadway ru…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM on November 15, 2011

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