| Description |
2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged ; 12 cm) |
| Note |
Music by George Gershwin ; libretto by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward; lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin ; musical book adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks; musical score adapted by Diedre L. Murray. |
| Performer |
Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier. |
| Event |
Recorded Mar. 26-27, 2012 at MSR Studios, New York, NY. |
| Note |
"New Broadway cast recording"--Container. |
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Compact discs. |
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Program notes and libretto in slipcase. |
| Contents |
Disc one. Overture -- Summertime -- Roll them bones -- A woman is a sometime thing -- Porgy's entrance -- Crap game -- The killing of Robbins -- Gone, gone, gone -- My man's gone now -- Leaving for the promised land -- It takes a long pull to get there -- I got plenty of nothing -- I hates your strutting style -- "Picnics is all right..." -- Bess, you is my woman now -- Oh, I can't sit down. Disc two. It ain't necessarily so -- What you want with Bess? -- Oh, doctor Jesus -- Street cries -- "I was powerful sick..." -- I loves you, Porgy -- The storm approaches -- Oh, the Lord shake the heaven -- A red headed woman -- Oh, doctor Jesus (reprise) -- Clara, don't you be downhearted -- Summertime (reprise) -- The death of crown -- There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York -- Bess, oh where's my bess? -- Oh Lord, I'm on my way. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Operas.
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Musicals.
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| Added Author |
Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Librettist. Lyricist.
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Heyward, Dorothy, 1890-1961. Librettist.
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Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983. Lyricist.
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Parks, Suzan-Lori.
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Murray, Diedre.
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McDonald, Audra. Performer.
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Lewis, Norm, 1963- Performer.
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Grier, David Alan, 1956 June 30- Performer.
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| Added Title |
Porgy and Bess
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| Standard No. |
00803607120627 gtin-14 |
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803607120627 |
| Music No. |
PS-1206 PS Classis |
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