The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- January 12, 2012
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 322
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 73rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
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. |
| 1983 | Radio City Music Hall Revival · Jack O'Brien | 45 perf. |
Who was in it5 named
5 of these 5 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Diane Paulus
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.
Around this production
Porgy and Bess ( PORG-ee) is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy. Porgy and Bess was first performed in Boston on September 30, 1935, before it moved to Broadway in New York City. It featured a cast of classically trained African-American singers—a daring artistic choice at the time. A 1976 Houston Grand Opera production gained it a renewed popularity, and it is now one of the best known and most frequently performed operas. The libretto of Porgy and Bess tells the…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
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.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.