Composer Stephen Sondheim will probably be appeased when he sees The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, the reconceived revival of the classic opera by George and Ira Gershwin and, oh yes, librettist/lyricists DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. Many of the radical changes that Sondheim objected to so publicly in his letter to The New York Times have been abandoned, with the result that this version is more or less faithful to…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:40AM on January 13, 2012