Judith Miller: While producers and theater enthusiasts brace for this year's Tony Awards on Sunday, few have more riding on their outcome than the Gershwin estates—the heirs of George and Ira Gershwin.
Theater-goers have been treated this season to not just one, but two remodeled Gershwin classics, both playing on West 45th Street in New York, a few theaters apart. The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, a slimmed-down version of the work starring four-time Tony winner Audra McDonald as Bess and Norm Lewis as Porgy, which had not been seen on a Broadway stage in 35 years, opened at the Richard Rodgers Theater in January.
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