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.
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Marquita Lister
Bess
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Alvy Powell
Porgy
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Timothy Robert Blevins
Crown
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Sabrina Elaine Carten
Maria
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Dwayne Clark
Sportin' Life
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David Aron Damane
Jake
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Darryl Reuben Hall
Company
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Wynn Harmon
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Charles Mandracchia
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Angela Renée Simpson
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Martin Sola
Nelson
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Archive 81
Tazewell Thompson Director · Dorothy Heyward Writer DuBose Heyward Writer
United States release March 20, 2002 · Produced in United States · Production Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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PBS
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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English
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English
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United States · March 20, 2002
TV · PBS