" Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" cast update!

" Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" cast update!

Cast update for Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which opens at the Savoy Theatre on 9 Nov 2006, following previews from 25 Oct - booking to 31 Mar 2007

The cast includes: Clarke Peters (Porgy), Nicola Hughes (Bess), Cornell John (Crown), Dawn Hope (Serena), O-T Fagbenle (Sportin' Life) .

This new musical production has been adapted and re-worked from an opera into a 2½ hour musical by Trevor Nunn, who will also direct. The music has been specially adapted by Gareth Valentine.

This £3 million production featuring a 60-strong company, with 40 in the cast and a 20-piece orchestra, will begin rehearsals on 4 Sep 2006.

Porgy and Bess , with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin and a book by Dubose Heyward, based on "Porgy" by Dubose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward, originally premiered on 10 Oct 1935 at the Alvin Theatre in New York in a production directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

The musical features famous songs such as as "Summertime", "I Got Plenty o' Nothin" and "It Ain't Necessarily So".

It is produced in London by Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Howard Panter for Ambassador Theatre Group and Tulbart Productions.


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