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Line 8: Bess is addicted to "Happy dust" (Cocaine), and strung along by her dealer/boyfriend Crown. When Crown kills another man over a craps game he escapes to a nearby island, leaving Bess. Porgy a peddler well-liked in the community, takes her in. The story unfolds with Porgy and Bess' blossoming relationship and what happens to them in Catfish Row. Opened to great controversy in 1935, but the music and themes are classic, and is now regarded as <s> one of</s> '''the''' great American opera; no other American opera comes anywhere near the popularity and critical acclaim (both domestic and abroad). From [[The Other Wiki]]: " {{quote\|"Summertime" is by far the best-known piece from the work, and countless interpretations of this and other individual numbers have also been recorded and performed. The second best-known number is "It Ain't Necessarily So". The opera is admired for Gershwin's innovative synthesis of European orchestral techniques with American jazz and folk music idioms."}} ----▼ ~~== Tropes used in this work include: ==~~ The play was made into [[Porgy and Bess (film)\|a movie in 1959]]. ▲---- {{tropelist}} * [[All Musicals Are Adaptations]]/[[Adaptation Displacement]] * [[Babies Make Everything Better]]: Hinted at after Porgy and Bess {{spoiler\|adopt Clara's baby}}. Line 44 ⟶ 46: [[Category:Opera]] [[Category:Porgy and Bess]] [[Category:~~Theatre~~Theatrical Productions]] [[Category:Theatre of the 1930s]]