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In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.Read moreLess
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
The story
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Cast & crew
Willard WhitePorgy
Cynthia HaymonBess
Cynthia ClareySerena
Marietta SimpsonMaria
Damon EvansSportin' LifePaula Ingram
Paula IngramClara / Annie (singing voice)
Barrington ColemanMingoExplore the crew
- Director
- Trevor Nunn
- Writer
- DuBose Heyward
- Writer
- Dorothy Heyward
- Original Music Composer
- George Gershwin
- Director of Photography
- Chris Townsend
- Producer
- Greg Smith
- Producer
- Stephanie Marks
- Editor
- St. John O'Rorke