Photo Flash: New Marquee for PORGY & BESS

By: Oct. 21, 2011
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THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, which played a record-breaking, sold out engagement at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, will play a 26-week limited run at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 West 46th Street, between 8th Avenue and Broadway). The new marquee is now up at the theatre - check it out below!

The production will begin previews on Saturday, December 17th, 2011 and open on Thursday, January 12th, 2012- running through June 24, 2012. Tickets are now on sale at ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-745-3000.

THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, with a score by George Gershwin, a book by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and lyrics byIra Gershwin and DuBose Heyward, has been adapted by Pulitzer prize-winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks, and two-time Obie winner Diedre L. Murray. A.R.T.'s Artistic Director, Diane Paulus, directs. The Broadway production will star Audra McDonald as Bess, Norm Lewis as Porgy and David Alan Grier as Sporting Life, reprising their A.R.T. roles.

The creative team also includes choreographer Ronald K. Brown, set designer Riccardo Hernandez, costume designer ESosa, lighting designer Christopher Akerlind and sound designer ACME Sound Partners.

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski

Photo Flash: New Marquee for PORGY & BESS

Photo Flash: New Marquee for PORGY & BESS
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theater

Photo Flash: New Marquee for PORGY & BESS
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theater

Photo Flash: New Marquee for PORGY & BESS
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theater

Photo Flash: New Marquee for PORGY & BESS
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theater

Photo Flash: New Marquee for PORGY & BESS



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