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Porgy and Bess

03/20/2002

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2hrs 33min

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Music

STORY

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Marquita Lister
  • Alvy Powell
  • Timothy Robert Blevins
  • Sabrina Elaine Carten
  • Dwayne Clark

    Director

  • Tazewell Thompson

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • PBS
  • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Marquita Lister

Bess

Alvy Powell

Porgy

Timothy Robert Blevins

Crown

Sabrina Elaine Carten

Maria

Dwayne Clark

Sportin' Life

David Aron Damane

Jake

Darryl Reuben Hall

Company

Wynn Harmon

The Detective

Charles Mandracchia

Policeman

Angela Renée Simpson

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