The run closed May 15, 1983
- Opened
- April 7, 1983
- Closed
- May 15, 1983
- Performances
- 45
- Previews
- 22
- Theatre
- Radio City Music Hall
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 240th 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. |
| 1976 | Uris Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien | 122 perf. |
| 2012 | Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · Diane Paulus | 322 perf. |
Who was in it89 named
Loretta Abbott
Timothy Allen
Shirley Baines
Earl L Baker
Gregg Baker
Emerson Battles
Raymond H Bazemore
Shirley Black Brown
Roslyn Burrough
Vertrelle Cameron
Seraiah Carol
Duane Clenton Carter
Dabriah Chapman
Louise Coleman
Henrietta Elizabeth Davis
Janice D Dixon
Diallobe Dorsey
Cisco Xavier Drayton
Alberta M Driver
Joseph S Eubanks
Karen E Eubanks
Lori Eubanks
Beno Foster
Luvenia Garner
Jerry Godfrey
Earl Grandison
Milton B Grayson Jr
Elvira Green
Lawrence Hamilton
Gurcell Henry
Angela Holcomb
Lisa D Holkmann
Loretta Holkmann
Janice T Hutson
David Michael Johnson
Leavata Johnson
Tyrone Jolivet
Dorothy L Jones
Donald Walter Kase
Robert Kryser
Roberta Alexandra Laws
Eugene Little
Jason Little
Ann Marie Mackey
Barbara Mahajan
Amelia Marshall
Richard Mason
Y Yvonne Matthews
Regina Mcconnell
Everett Mccorvey
John Mcdaniels
George Robert Merritt
William Moize
Naomi Moody
Robert Mosley Jr
Daisy Newman
Byron Onque
H William Penn
Marenda Perry
Lou Ann Pickett
Akili Prince
Herbert Lee Rawlings Jr
Roumel Reaux
Noelle Richards
David Robertson
Lattilia Ronrico
Renee L Rose
Myles Gregory Savage
Wilma A Shakesnider
Sheryl Shell
Kiki Shepard
Gwendolyn Shepherd
Alexander Smalls
Michael V Smartt
Jonathan Sprague
Larry Storch
Kevin L Stroman
Charee Adia Thorpes
James Tyeska
Veronica Tyler
Mervin Bertel Wallace
Pamela Warrick Smith
Cornelius White
Rodney Wing
Tarik Winston
Denice Woods
Thomas J Young
2 of these 89 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 87 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
- Radio City Music Hall Productions (Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)
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.