Broadway Review: THE GERSHWIN'S PORGY AND BESS
I have to say, it takes some gall to change the name of a classic American folk opera, effectively negating the contributions of two of the chief architects of the original work. Porgy and Bess lyricists DuBose and Dorothy Heyward not only wrote the original series of vignettes, which the play Porgy was based on, they wrote the original Theatre Guild play. In the new production of what is now being called The…