Porgy & Bess<\/em><\/a> — but a version that hasn’t been heard in 70 years. Seems that Gershwin, as was his wont, published the music and book for his musical when he was initially done with them, then directed the premiere version on stage, making extensive edits. Gershwin died a year after the show closed, and his notes and scores from that version have been stuffed in a box since 1937.<\/p>\nThey were rediscovered in the mid-80s, and someone is finally putting together a “new” staging of the show from those notes and scores. It’s shorter (by about 30 minutes) and both drops a song and adds a new one. <\/p>\n
That sort of tweaking by composers of their works isn’t all that unusual (Handel did stuff to Messiah <\/em>every time he put it on), though often it’s driven by accomodating the available talent and the space the performance is in. But it’s still a nifty bit of theater trivia to see how Gershwin’s performance differs from his original published version. A soundtrack will be released in the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, almost March, but, damn, we’ve been short on snow and warm on temps. 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