Back from the touring company of The Gershwin's Porgy & Bess. It was OK. I assume it was a fairly accurate rendition of the production that recently played on Broadway. The singing was uniformly good. Even though I have never seen another staged production, though, I kept feeling that everything was "cut down." I have to check the program to see how many musicians were in the orchestra, but it sounded thin. The chorus was reduced to about 12 singing actors. The re-written book seemed a bit thin, and I know material was cut, as the entire show with intermission was 2.5 hours. So I will have to seek out a complete recording to get a better sense of the piece as the Gershwins wrote it.
