repertoire.

At first it wasn't easy to put on the production, because it needed an ________ cast at a time when Afro-American actors were _______ from performing, and Gershwin didn't want it done in "blackface", that is, with white actors made up like blacks. But in the end he ____ __ ______ white actors performing the roles of black people.

After much time and many difficulties the show was finally put on. At first it received __________ reviews, and George Gershwin ____ in 1937, without knowing that he had co-written an American classic, and one of the western world's ________ _____. But word spread around New York, the audiences grew _____ ____ ______, and soon the opera was an extraordinary ___.

Porgy and Bess deals with the rhymes and rhythms of _____ ____ in America. It combines elements that have never before appeared as ________ and it shows the drama, the humour, the superstition, the religious fervour, the dancing, the misery and ___ ____ _____ of black Americans in the early 20th century.

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