| Other author/creator | Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 librettist, lyricist. |
| Other author/creator | Heyward, Dorothy, 1890-1961 librettist. |
| Other author/creator | Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983 lyricist. |
| Other author/creator | Parks, Suzan-Lori adapter. |
| Other author/creator | Murray, Diedre, adapter. |
| Other author/creator | Brohn, William D. arranger of music. |
| Other author/creator | Jahnke, Christopher arranger of music. |
| Other author/creator | McDonald, Audra performer. |
| Other author/creator | Lewis, Norm, 1963- performer. |
| Other author/creator | Grier, David Alan, 1956 June 30- performer. |
| Other author/creator | Kitsopoulos, Constantine, conductor. |
| Uniform title | Porgy and Bess |
| Portion of title |
Porgy and Bess |
| Series | TomtheJazzman Collection TomtheJazzman Collection. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
Overture (2:23) -- Summertime (2:40) -- Roll them bones (3:38) -- A woman is a sometime thing (2:16) -- Porgy's entrance (3:12) -- Crap game (1:37) -- The killing of Robbins (4:22) -- Gone, gone, gone (3:34) -- My man's gone now (4:05) -- Leaving for the promised land (3:32) -- It takes a long pull to get there (2:12) -- I got plenty of nothing (2:44) -- I hates your strutting style (2:31) -- "Picnics is all right" (2:16) -- Bess, you is my woman now (5:00) -- Oh, I can't sit down (2:35) -- It ain't necessarily so (3:14) -- What you want with Bess? (6:38) -- Oh, Doctor Jesus (2:49) -- Street cries (3:38) -- "I was powerful sick" (2:16) -- I loves you, Porgy (3:11) -- The storm approaches (2:20) -- Oh, the Lord shake the heaven (4:02) -- A red headed woman (2:00) -- Oh, Doctor Jesus : (reprise) (1:23) -- Clara, don't you be downhearted (2:05) -- Summertime : (reprise) (2:36) -- The death of Crown (1:31) -- There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York (2:55) -- Bess, oh where's my Bess? (4:07) -- Oh Lord, I'm on my way (2:38). |
| Abstract |
Revered for its legendary score by George Gershwin, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, Porgy and Bess has been reimagined and reinvigorated for the modern stage by a team that includes Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, musical adapter Diedre L. Murray and director Diane Paulus. It's the New Broadway Cast Recording of one of the most beloved works of the American musical theatre. |
| General note | Opera. |
| General note | "New Broadway cast recording"--Container spine. |
| General note | Libretto by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward ; musical book adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks ; musical score adapted by Diedre L. Murray ; orchestrations by William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke. |
| General note | Compact discs. |
| General note | Program notes by Patrick Pacheco, synopsis, and libretto ([40] p. : ports.) inserted in container. |
| Performer |
Audra McDonald (Bess) ; Norm Lewis (Porgy) ; David Alan Grier (Sporting Life) ; Nikki Renée Daniels, Joshua Henry, NaTasha Yvette Williams, J.D. Webster, Bryonha Marie Parham, Nathaniel Stampley, Phillip Boykin, Christopher Innvar, Joseph Dellger, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Phumzile Sojola, Cedric Neal, Roosevelt André Credit, Trevon Davis, Wilkie Ferguson III, Allison Blackwell, Heather Hill, Alicia Hall Moran, Lisa Nicole Wilkerson, supporting soloists ; orchestra ; Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Mar. 26-27, 2012, MSR Studios, New York, NY. |
| ISBN | 9786314662592 (CD) |
| ISBN | 6314662591 (CD) |
| Standard identifier# |
00803607120627 |
| UPC |
803607120627 |
| Publisher number | PS-1206 PS Classics |