Gregg Baker, Laquita Mitchell Star in New Jersey State Opera's PORGY AND BESS, 5/23
By: BWW News Desk
New Jersey State Opera will presents its 75th anniversary production of PORGY AND BESS at the Newark Symphony Hall on Sunday, May 23 at 3pm. Gregg Baker and Laquita Mitchell will star in the show which will be directed by Jonathan Eaton with the 55-piece orchestra being conducted by Jason C. Tramm.
PORGY AND BESS is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel "Porgy" and the play of the same name which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward. PORGY AND BESS tells the story of Porgy, a crippled black man living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina. It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent and possessive lover, and Sportin' Life, the drug dealer.
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