Hints and tips:
...Nicola Hughes as Bess and Phillip Boykin as Crown are formidable. Boykin is a very big fellow with a voice to match; Hughes may be smaller but she is no less impressive....
...Phillip Boykin blusters powerfully as a super-burly Crown. Nikki Renée Daniels sings the once ethereal “Summertime”, now a duet with baritone, in an odd earthbound key....
...David Alan Grier’s invigorating Sporting Life works this text more nimbly than the more operatic Crown of Phillip Boykin. Best of all among the men is Norm Lewis’s Porgy....
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