An American in Paris is Coming to Taichung
See Trailer for "An American in Paris" here I started a new blog called "The Gershwin Brothers". I will expand on my education about their music. Unlike the Ingmar Bergman blog piece from last summer's focus of attention, The Gershwin Brothers encompasses more than just the "An American in Paris" show at the Taichung Opera House in late August, and it may not culminate with it, either. I found out about the Broadway show in the Eslite bookstore in Taichung, Taiwan, after I had purchased a three-record box set of the 1976 Houston Symphony production of "Porgy & Bess". There were numerous clippings someone had left in the box, from New York City periodicals and a Playbill from the show's Radio City Music Hall production. Funny, I know a crap shooter who I can lean on about anecdotes and details of crap-shooting ("rolling bones") central to Porgy & Bess's opening act. There is a b...