Porgy and Bess
Contributors: Hutcherson, LeVern; Price, Leontyne; Leonardos, Urylee; Scott, Leslie, 1921-1969; Burke, Georgia, 1906-; 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; Ziegfeld Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1953
Language: eng
Description: The Ziegfeld Theatre, 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, with Cab Calloway, LeVern Hutcherson, Leontyne Price, Urylee Leonardos, Leslie Scott, Georgia Burke, musical director Alexander Smallens, settings by Wolfgang Roth, costumes by Jed Mace, assistant musical director, Samuel Matlowsky, choral director Eva Jessye.
Notes: Ziegfeld Theatre, beginning Tuesday evening, March 10, 1953.

"The Playbill for the Ziegfeld Theatre"--Cover.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Helen Colbert, Jerry Laws, Cab Calloway, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Howard Roberts, Hugh Dilworth and Sherman Sneed, Joseph Crawford, Helen Dowdy, Georgia Burke, LeVern Hutcherson or Leslie Scott or Irving Barnes, John McCurry, Catherine Ayers, Leontyne Price or Urylee Leonardos, Sam Kasakoff, Walter Riemer, William Veasey, Moses LaMarr, Elizabeth Foster,  Ray Yeates, Willis Daily, Jebob, Joseph Attles, Irving Barnes, Lawson Bates, James Hawthorne Bey, Rhoda Boggs, Walter P. Brown, Miriam Burton, Sibol Cain, Elsie Clark, Charles Colman, Clarice Crawford, Helen Ferguson, Doris Galiber, Ruby Greene, Kenneth Hibbert, George A. Hill, Joy McLean, Pauline Phelps, Edna Ricks, Anabelle Ross, George A. Royston, Dolores Swan, Clyde Turner, Eloise C. Uggams, Barbara Ann Webb. Jacqueline Barnes, George Royston Jr.

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