Porgy and Bess
Contributors: Smallens, Alexander, 1889-1972; Roth, Wolfgang, 1910-1988; Mace, Jed; Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992; Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983; Gershwin, George, 1898-1937; Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940; Heyward, Dorothy, 1890-1961; National Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1953
Language: eng
Description: National Theatre, Louis A. Lotito, managing director, Blevins Davis and Robert Breen present "Porgy and Bess," music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin (based on the play, "Porgy," by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward), directed by Robert Breen, musical director Alexander Smallens, settings by Wolfgang Roth, costumes by Jed Mace, assistant musical director Samuel Matlowsky, choral director Eve Jessye, assistant musical conductor William Jonson.
Notes: National Theatre, week beginning Monday, December 21, 1953.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Helen Colbert, Jerry Laws, Cab Calloway, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Howard Roberts, Sherman Sneed, Hugh Dilworth, Joseph Crawford, Helen Dowdy, Georgia Burke, LeVern Hutcherson or Leslie Scott or Irving Barnes, John McCurry, Catherine Ayres, Leontyne Price or Urylee Leonardos or Elizabeth Foster, Sam Kasakoff, Walter Riemer, William Veasey, Moses LaMarr, Elizabeth Foster, Ray Yeates, Cecil Rutherford, Jebob IV, Joseph Attles, Irving Barnes, Lawson Bates, James Hawthorne Bey, Rhoda Boggs, Miriam Burton, Sibol Cain, Elsie Clark, Charles Colman, Clarice Crawford, Helen Ferguson, Doris Galiber, Ruby Greene, Lillian Hayman, Kenneth Hibbert, George A. Hill, Fredye Marshall, Joy McLean, Edna Ricks, Anabelle Ross, George A. Royston, Delores Swan, Eloise C. Uggams, Catherine Van Buren, Barbara Ann Webb, Millard Williams, Ned Wright, Jacqueline Barnes, George Royston Jr.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).