The run closed January 9, 1977
- Opened
- September 25, 1976
- Closed
- January 9, 1977
- Performances
- 122
- Previews
- 5
- Theatre
- George Gershwin Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 144th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Porgy and Bess 7 more that season
| 1935 | Alvin Theatre Original · Rouben Mamoulian | 124 perf. |
| 1942 | Majestic Theatre Revival · Robert Ross | 286 perf. |
| 1943 | 44th Street Theatre Revival · Robert Ross | 24 perf. |
| 1944 | City Center Revival · Robert Ross | 64 perf. |
| 1953 | Revival Revival | 305 perf. |
| 1983 | Radio City Music Hall Revival · Jack O'Brien | 45 perf. |
| 2012 | Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · Diane Paulus | 322 perf. |
Who was in it54 named
Donnie Ray Albert
Steven Alex Cole
John D Anthony
Shirley Baines
Earl Baker
Kenneth Barry
Phyllis Bash
Kenneth Bates
Carol Brice
Barbara Buck
Alex Carrington
Clamma Dale
Curtis Dickson
Ella Eure
Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Elizabeth Graham
Earl Grandison
Kenneth Hamilton
Betty Harris
Esther Hinds
Loretta Holkmann
Delores Ivory Davis
Alma Johnson
Cora Johnson
Betty Lane
Abraham Lind Oquendo
Roberta Long
Hartwell Mace
Patricia Mcdermott
George Robert Merritt
Myra Merritt
Naomi Moody
Robert Mosley
Irene Oliver
Glover Parham
William Penn
Dwight Ransom
Cornel Richie
John B Ross
Rodrick Ross
Hansford Rowe
Wilma A Shakesnider
Alexander B Smalls
Andrew Smith
Bernard Thacker
Mervin Wallace
Barbara Ann Webb
Wardell Woodard
Denice Woods
Barbara L Young
Bruce Hubbard
Queen Yahna
2 of these 54 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 52 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jack O'Brien
- Choreographer
- Jack O'Brien
- Producer
- Sherwin M. Goldman
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 5 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Porgy and Bess, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 5 recordings of Porgy and Bess document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.