Porgy and Bess

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.

• DuBose HeywardWriter
• Dorothy HeywardWriter
• Trevor NunnDirector
• George GershwinOriginal Music Composer

• Willard WhitePorgy
• Cynthia HaymonBess
• Gregg BakerCrown
• Cynthia ClareySerena
• Marietta SimpsonMaria
• Damon EvansSportin' Life
• Paula IngramClara / Annie (singing voice)
• Gordon HawkinsJake
• D. Alonzo WashingtonRobbins
• Mervin WallacePeter
• Barrington ColemanMingo
• William B. JohnsonFrazier