Broadway darling Audra McDonald won three Tony Awards before she turned 30, and a fourth for ?A Raisin in the Sun? with Sean Combs in 2004. So how could she have strayed into Stephen Sondheim?s firing line?
McDonald is currently headlining the revised 1935 George Gershwin-Dubose Heyward-Ira Gershwin opera ?Porgy and Bess,? about an addicted woman and her crippled lover. Sondheim, the revered and intimidating composer of ?Follies? and ?Sweeney Todd,? adores ?Porgy.? He penned a scathing public letter criticizing the Boston production?s proposed liberties ? targeting McDonald and others specifically ? after reading an article in the New York Times. The show, with new material and a Porgy (Norm Lewis) who limps as opposed to the traditional rolling in a goat cart, transfers to Broadway in December.
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