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Porgy and Bess New Broadway

The #1 Musical of the Year! A Don’t-Miss Event!” is how Time magazine welcomed The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess upon its triumphant return to Broadway in a new production starring four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald, Drama Desk-nominee Norm Lewis, and two-time Tony Award-nominee David Alan Grier. The Associated Press hailed it as “a gorgeous version of the Gershwin masterpiece,” while Newsday proclaimed it “a luscious piece of musical theatre: a gripping, in-your-face, vibrant revival that bursts with fierce immediacy.” Of Ms. McDonald, The New York Times swooned, “For devastating theatrical impact, it’s hard to imagine any hurricane matching the tempest that is the extraordinary Audra McDonald’s Bess. And when she sings – ah, it’s a God-touched voice that turns suffering and ugliness into beauty.” Newsday praised Norm Lewis’s “heartachingly vital Porgy,” while David Alan Grier brings “comic relief and wonderful showmanship” (Entertainment Weekly) to the role of Sportin’ Life. Revered for its legendary score by George Gershwin, Dubose & Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin — featuring such classics as “Summertime,” “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” and “I Got Plenty of Nothing” — The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess has been reimagined and reinvigorated for the modern stage by a team that includes Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, musical adapter Diedre L. Murray and director Diane Paulus. PS Classics proudly presents the New Broadway Cast Recording of one of the most beloved works of the American musical theatre.

The soundtrack cover for Rogers & Hammerstein's "Allegro" featuring a man holding a suitcase walking through a field.

Allegro

The Rodgers & Hammerstein musical (1947) finally gets the luminous, all-star studio cast recording it deserves! The inner beauties that have long fascinated theater buffs come to the fore as Marni Nixon, Liz Callaway, Laura Benanti, Norbert Leo Butz, Audra McDonald and the rest of the cast deliver I Know It Can Happen Again; Winters Go By; Poor Joe; Money Isn’t Everything; Wildcats, and more.