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[Literature & Art] Heward, DuBose. (1885 - 1940) & Heyward, Dorothy. (1890 - 1961) etc.. Porgy. A Play In Four Acts - SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS AND ORIGINAL CAST. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co.. 1928. First edition. Signed on the front endpate and half title recto and verso by by both Dorothy and DuBose Heyward and 27 members of the original New York Theatre Guild production, including the creators of the roles of all the principle characters: Frank Wilson (Porgy), Evelyn Ellis (Bess), Percy Verwayne (Sporting Life), Rose MacClendon (Serena), Jack Carter (Crown) etc. Cloth lettered in red, relined and rebacked, a little soiled, else fine.
"Porgy" was first a novel written by the DuBose Heyward and published in 1925 and then was adapted into a play by both DuBose and his wife, Dorothy. Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess (renamed to distinguish it from the play). Porgy opened on Broadway at the Guild Theatre (today's August Wilson Theatre) on October 10, 1927, and ran for 367 performances. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
"Porgy" was first a novel written by the DuBose Heyward and published in 1925 and then was adapted into a play by both DuBose and his wife, Dorothy. Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess (renamed to distinguish it from the play). Porgy opened on Broadway at the Guild Theatre (today's August Wilson Theatre) on October 10, 1927, and ran for 367 performances. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
[Literature & Art] Heward, DuBose. (1885 - 1940) & Heyward, Dorothy. (1890 - 1961) etc.. Porgy. A Play In Four Acts - SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS AND ORIGINAL CAST. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co.. 1928. First edition. Signed on the front endpate and half title recto and verso by by both Dorothy and DuBose Heyward and 27 members of the original New York Theatre Guild production, including the creators of the roles of all the principle characters: Frank Wilson (Porgy), Evelyn Ellis (Bess), Percy Verwayne (Sporting Life), Rose MacClendon (Serena), Jack Carter (Crown) etc. Cloth lettered in red, relined and rebacked, a little soiled, else fine.
"Porgy" was first a novel written by the DuBose Heyward and published in 1925 and then was adapted into a play by both DuBose and his wife, Dorothy. Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess (renamed to distinguish it from the play). Porgy opened on Broadway at the Guild Theatre (today's August Wilson Theatre) on October 10, 1927, and ran for 367 performances. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
"Porgy" was first a novel written by the DuBose Heyward and published in 1925 and then was adapted into a play by both DuBose and his wife, Dorothy. Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess (renamed to distinguish it from the play). Porgy opened on Broadway at the Guild Theatre (today's August Wilson Theatre) on October 10, 1927, and ran for 367 performances. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian.