Hints and tips:
...Rufus Wainwright, musician and composer “Nina Simone singing ‘Cotton Eyed Joe’....
...Leemore Marrett Jr’s Gilbert is witty, dignified and perplexed by the ignorance and prejudice he encounters. Martin Hutson, as Bernard, seems pinched and shrunken by his xenophobia....
...Rufus Bonds Jr as Porgy is the most magnetic and inspiring presence in Regent’s Park. Beaming like an angel, Bonds’ rendition of “I Got Plenty of Nothing” will have you beaming back at him....
...Rufus Bonds Jr plays Porgy, the disabled beggar who loves Bess, played here by Nicola Hughes, and tries to save her from her troubled past....
...So where Thompson Sr wisecracked “You’re the one I’ve wanted so long/But then again I might be wrong” on 1986’s “Nearly in Love”, Thompson Jr spends his new album Bella either wooing the fairer sex or lamenting...
...for the group’s incomparable bassoonist, Rufus Olivier....
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