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Porgy and Bess
Music:
George Gershwin
Lyrics:
DuBose Hayward and Ira Gershwin
Book:
DuBose Hayward
Synopsis:
Set in 1912 in Charleston, South Carolina, Bess, a woman with a disreputable past, tries to break free of her brutish lover, assisted only by the crippled Porgy.
Production Year:
1977
Inside The Program:
Cast Member
Role
Photo
Donnie Ray Albert
Porgy
Vanessa Ayers
Ensemble/Understudy for Maria
Shirley Baines
Annie/Serena/Ensemble
Earl Baker
Ensemble
Kenneth Bates
Ensemble/Understudy for Peter
Raymond Bazemore
Frazier/Ensemble
Barbara Buck
Lily/Ensemble/Understudy for Strawberry Woman
Paul Connelly
Jasbo Brown
Henrietta Davis
Clara/Ensemble
Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Bess
William Gammon
Policeman/Understudy for Detective and Coroner
Loretta Giles
Strawberry Woman/Ensemble/Understudy for Lily
Eric Graham
Scipio
Elizabeth Graham
Clara
Earl Grandison
Ensemble/Understudy for Frazier, Undertaker
Loretta Holkmann
Ensemble
Bruce A. Hubbard
Porgy/Jake
Delores Ivory-Davis
Serena
Joanne Jackson
Maria
Alma Johnson
Ensemble/Understudy for Clara
Janet Jordan
Ensemble/Understudy for Strawberry Woman
Donald Walter Kase
Ensemble/Understudy for Jim, Undertaker
Christal Lockley
Ensemble
André Love
Policeman
Hartwell Mace
Jim/Ensemble
Barbara Mahajan
Ensemble
Larry Marshall
Sportin' Life
Diane Matthew
Ensemble
Patricia Lynn McDermott
Ensemble
Margery A. Medina
Ensemble
George Robert Merritt
Crown
Naomi Moody
Bess
Robert Mosley
Porgy
Gail Nelson
Bess
Lou Ann Pickett
Ensemble/Understudy for Serena
Dwight Ransom
Ensemble
Ronald E. Richardson
Sportin' Life/Understudy for Robbins/Ensemble
John B. Ross
Coroner
Rodrick T. Ross
Robbins/Ensemble
Hansford Rowe
Detective
Wilma Shakesnider
Serena
Gwendolyn Shepherd
Maria/Ensemble
Michael Smartt
Ensemble/Undertaker/Understudy for Porgy, Crown
Andrew Smith
Crown
Jubilant Sykes
Jake/Ensemble
Mervin Bertel Wallace
Peter/Ensemble
Daniel Washington
Ensemble/Understudy for Porgy
Wardell Woodard
Mingo/Ensemble
Barbara Louise Young
Ensemble/Understudy for Annie