Porgy and Bess
Contributors: Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994; Price, Leontyne; Leonardos, Urylee; Hutcherson, LeVern; Breen, Robert; 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: 1952
Language: eng
Description: National Theatre, 1321 E Street Realty Corporation, lessee, Louis A. Lotito, managing director, Blevins Davis and Robert Breen present George Gershwin and Dubose Heyward's "Porgy and Bess," music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin (founded on the play "Porgy" by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward), directed by Robert Breen, musical director Alexander Smallens, choral director Eva Jessye, settings by Wolfgang Roth, costumes by Jed Mace, assistant musical director Samuel Matlowsky, with William Warfield, Cab Calloway, Leontyne Price, Urylee Leonardos, LeVern Hutcherson ...
Notes: National Theatre, week beginning Monday evening, August 5, 1952.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Helen Colbert, Jerry Laws, Cab Calloway, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Howard Roberts, Leslie Scott, Joseph Crawford, Helen Dowdy, Georgia Burke, William Warfield, LeVern Hutcherson, John McCurry, Catherine Ayres, Leontye Price, Urylee Leonardos, Sam Kasakoff, Kenneth Hibbert, Walter Riemer, William Veasey, Moses LaMarr, Elizabeth Foster, Ray Yeates, Jebob, Joseph Attles, Irving Barnes, Lawson Bates, James Hawthorne Bey, Rhoda Boggs, Walter P. Brown, Elsie Clark, Charles Colman, Clarice Crawford, Helen Ferguson, Doris Galiber, Ruby Greene, George A. Hill, Pauline Phelps, Edna Ricks, Anabelle Ross, George A. Royston, Osborne E. Smith, Sherman Sneed, Christine Spencer, Delores Swan, Clyde Turner, Eloise C. Uggams, Barbara Ann Webb, Jacqueline Barnes, George Royston Jr.

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