#porgy and bess

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Dorothy Dandridge as Bess

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Dorothy Dandridge arriving at the premiere of the film Porgy & Bess at the Warner Theatre in New York City on June 24, 1959.

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WAYLAND ANDERSON

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George Gershwin taking a bow after the premiere of Porgy and Bess, October 10, 1935, at the Alvin (now the Neil Simon) Theater. "The starry opening drew Hollywood royalty, including Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford. After the ovations died down, the A-listers headed to a glamorous after-party, where George Gershwin played excerpts from his score on the piano."—NY Times

(Who knew that "A-listers" was a phrase in the 1930s?)

Photo: Bygone Broadway Instagram

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Poster for Porgy and Bess, an opera in three acts by American composer George Gershwin and directed by Wolfgang Bständig playing at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven (1971). Art and design by Graphic design by Renate and Frieder Grindler.

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Bon Soir 🎺💙🌞👌

Miles Davies 🎶 Summertime

Animation de Rui Barbosa

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the best act 2 finales from stage musicals, broadway and european, and crossover works. reprises, medleys, and instrumentals included. no disney.

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There’s No Business Like Show Business / They Say It’s Wonderful (Reprise) - Annie, Get Your Gun (Berlin)

Ol’ Man River (Reprise) - Show Boat (Kern/Hammerstein)

You’ll Never Walk Alone (Reprise) - Carousel (Rodgers/Hammerstein)

Rose’s Turn - Gypsy! (Styne/Sondheim)

Finale - West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim)

Der Schleier fällt - Elisabeth (Lévay/Kunze)

Ich hab geträumt von Manderley (Reprise) - Rebecca (Lévay/Kunze)

Down Once More / Track Down This Murderer - The Phantom of the Opera (Webber/Hart)

One (Reprise) - A Chorus Line (Hamlisch/Kleban)

Nowadays / Hot Honey Rag - Chicago (Kander/Ebb)

Climb Ev’ry Mountain (Reprise) - The Sound of Music (Rodgers/Hammerstein)

Oklahoma! - Oklahoma! (Rodgers/Hammerstein)

Finale - Wicked (Schwartz)

Lawd, I’m On My Way - Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)

Finale (Medley) - Hello, Dolly! (Herman)

Epilogue - Les Misérables (Schönberg/Boublil)

John Nineteen Forty-One - Jesus Christ Superstar (Webber)

Danse mon Esméralda - Notre Dame de Paris (Cocciante/Plamondon)

Anatevka - Fiddler on the Roof (Bock/Harnick)

Coupables - Roméo et Juliette (Presgurvic)

Le monde est stone - Starmania (Berger/Plamondon)

Der Tanz der Vampire - Tanz der Vampire (Steinman/Kunze)

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Chicagoans go about their business at the corner of State and Madison in 1959. Walgreens occupies the same site today, but many of the neon-signed shops and eateries have given way to retail chains. The Chicago Building on the far left is now a School of the Art Institute of Chicago residence hall. The historic McVickers Theater stands in the background, advertising Otto Preminger’s controversial film adaptation of Porgy and Bess (1959). In the early 21st century, an office building took its place.

Photography by Mildred LaDue Mead; UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-09933, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

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I can’t be the first one to think of this

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Cab Calloway and Leontyne Price performing in the 1953 revival of “Porgy and Bess”.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Song of the Day... Happy 65th Birthday to the sublime and best cover of "I Loves You Porgy"... recorded October 12th, 1959, by the great Oscar Peterson... for his "Porgy and Bess" album...

This was one of the albums of my childhood...

Then as now, so soothing... so chill... I loves you Oscar…❤

(Mary Elaine LeBey)

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The All Time Hits (1966) on WGN Television

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Leontyne Price photographed by Carl Van Vechten as Bess in the Broadway musical "Porgy and Bess" on May 19, 1953.

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GROUP: Classical music

Highlights from the Ballet - Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker - Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra (1966)

^this was a record i randomly found in my closet when we were moving out, and I had no idea where it came from. I play it every Christmas.

Franz Berwald Symphony in E flat - London Symphony Orchestra (1968)

Middle row: Bach Brandenburg Concerti No. 1-6 - Württemburg Chamber Orchestra (1968)

The Halle Orchestra - Tchaikowsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor & Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (unknown years, probably sometime between 1964-67)

GROUP: Vintage OSTs

The Salsoul Orchestra - Christmas Jollies (1976)

Technically not an OST i guess but it was definitely a soundtrack of my childhood, as this orchestra was very popular in Guyana and my family plays this album everyyy holiday season without fail.

Richard Rodgers - The Sound of Music OST (1967)

Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy And Bess (1963)

This is another record my mom gifted me and I'm not sure why bc I can only tolerate opera when I'm listening to it live. Still a cool thing to have I guess and it's the oldest record in my collection currently.

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American opera singers Urylee Leonardos (1910 - 1986, left) and Leontyne Price at a press reception at the Stoll Theatre, where they are starring in a production of George Gershwin's folk opera 'Porgy And Bess', London, 1952. The pair are playing the lead role of Bess alternately. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)