MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
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1935 FP of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with book by DeBose Heyward at Boston's Colonial Theater starring American Todd Duncan [photo](1903-1998) as Porgy. Porgy and Bess is an opera with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Dorothy Heyward. It was based on Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name that he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy. All three works deal with African American life in the fictitious Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1930s. 
