In her first encounters with Porgy, Bess clearly recognizes, and tries to hide from, the need in his eyes.
Ms. AUSTIN: And Porgy sings like I got plenty of nothing, which is kind of like my mantra of life.
You get the sense that, until she meets Porgy, Crown or the life she lives with Crown is all she has ever known.
When George Gershwin heard her sing, he cast her in the major role of Serena in his new opera, Porgy and Bess.
Before Porgy opened, Gershwin took five of the leading players into a recording studio to conduct parts of the opera with an orchestra.
Audra McDonald, the star of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" gave an unvarnished emotional speech in receiving the award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Simone's collection wisely leaves her signature numbers ("I Loves You Porgy, " "My Baby Just Cares for Me") unmolested, and gives the rest of the tracks the chill-out treatment.
Her revivals of both "Hair" and "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" have not only gone to Broadway but have won Tonys for best revival of a musical.
Catfish Row, in which Porgy lived, was not a row at all, but a great brick structure that lifted its three stories about the three sides of a court.
These include a teddy bear called Porgy which he used to practise his lectures on, a biography written by his mother, prize books awarded at school and his wristwatch.
With a uniformly white audience in attendance, Ms. Simone sang unsmiling and diffident versions of "Love Me or Leave Me" and "I Loves You, Porgy, " which she scored a rare top-40 hit with in 1959.
Three actors of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" -- Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier -- earned nominations, though only McDonald (who also is on ABC's "Private Practice") grabbed an award for best performance by a leading actress in a play.
Ms. AUSTIN: We have a "Porgy and Bess Medley" and I decided in the medley that I would do most of the guy's parts because most of the women's songs in "Porgy and Bess" are about, Lord, don't leave me, oh, my life is horrible.
Not only did they add both English and Spanish lyrics to what had been an instrumental, but they also combined Viva Tirado with elements of both Frankie Valli's hit ballad, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, and Summertime, the classic number from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
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