Porgy and Bess was groundbreaking: an opera about poor African-Americans in South Carolina, starring a cripple, a tramp, and a drug dealer. There's a new production on Broadway now entitled The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, but it's not the one George and Ira presented in 1935. Audiences get new dialogue, back stories, and orchestrations courtesy of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, director Diane Paulus, and musical directo…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:00AM on July 20, 2012