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PS Classics will release the New Broadway Cast Recording of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, currently available for pre-order, on May 22. Additionally they are offering a first listen of some of the tracks on their website. Click here to check them out!
The full track list is as follows:
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
"I was powerful sick..."
Street Cries
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
Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess?
Oh Lord, I’m on My Way
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess is now on Broadway with a cast led by four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (Ragtime, “Private Practice”) as Bess, Drama Desk nominee Norm Lewis (Les Misérables, Sondheim on Sondheim) as Porgy and two-time Tony nominee David Alan Grier (Race, “In Living Color”) as Sporting Life. Porgy and Bess also stars Phillip Boykin as Crown, Nikki Renée Daniels as Clara, Joshua Henry as Jake, Christopher Innvar as Detective, Bryonha Marie Parham as Serena and NaTasha Yvette Williams as Mariah, as well as Sumayya Ali, Allison Blackwell, Roosevelt André Credit, Trevon Davis, Joseph Dellger, Wilkie Ferguson, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Gavin Gregory, Heather Hill, David Hughey, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Alicia Hall Moran, Cedric Neal, PhumzileSojola, Nathaniel Stampley, Julius Thomas III, J.D. Webster and Lisa Nicole Wilkerson.
The classic story by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward is set in Charleston’s fabled Catfish Row, where the beautiful Bess struggles to break free from her scandalous past, and the only one who can rescue her is the crippled but courageous Porgy. Threatened by her formidable former lover Crown, and the seductive enticements of the colorful troublemaker Sporting Life, Porgy and Bess’ relationship evolves into a deep romance that triumphs as one of theater’s most exhilarating love stories. More information and peorders visit www.psclassics.com.
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