| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Porgy and Bess', based on the play 'Porgy' by Du Bose and Dorothy Heyward; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; includes programme extract with cast list; magazine extracts with photographs of members of the cast in scenes from the play; magazine article relating to tours of America and Europe.
Described in some of the reviews at the time as Gershwin's 'Negro Folk Opera', it stars Black actors and actresses. Includes photographs of Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, William Warfield, Urylee Leonardos, Howard Roberts, John McCurry, Jerry Laws, Joseph James, Helen Thigpen, Georgia Burke.
Performed at The Stoll Theatre, Kingsway, London, 9 Oct 1952; music by George Gershwin; libretto by Du Bose Heyward; lyrics by Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin; musical director Alexander Smallens; presented by Blevins Davis and Robert Breen; directed by Robert Breen; settings by Wolfgang Roth; costumes by Jed Mace; musical director Alexander Smallens; choral director Eva Jessye
America: The Alvin Theatre, New York, 11 Oct 1952.
Cast: Helen Colbert, Jerry Laws, Cab Calloway, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Howard Roberts, Leslie Scott, Joseph Crawford, Helen Dowdy, Georgia Burke, William Warfield, LeVern Hutcherson, John McCurry, Catherine Ayers, Leontyne Price, Urylee Leonardos, Sam Kasakoff, Walter Riemer, William Veasey, Moses LaMarr, Elizabeth Foster, Ray Yeates, Willis Daily, Kenneth Hibbert, Hugh Dilworth, Jerry Laws, Joseph Attles, Irving Barnes, Lawson Bates, James Hawthorne Bey, Rhoda Boggs, Walter P. Brown, Sibol Cain, Elsie Clark, Charles Colman, Clarice Crawford, Hugh Dilworth, Helen Ferguson, Doris Galiber, Ruby Greene, George A. Hill, Pauline Phelps, Edna Ricks, Anabelle Ross, George A. Royston, Osbourne E. Smith, Sherman Sneed, Dolores Swan, Clyde Turner, Eloise C. Uggams, Barbara Ann Webb. |