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1927 production which incorporated spirituals into the action. This Theater Guild presentation of Porgy ran for 367 performances and elicited interest from others, among them Al Jolson, in using it as a basis for some sort of musical production. However, nothing came of these ideas and in 1934, after years of correspondence, George and Ira gershwin joined DuBose heyward in Charleston to write the opera which had been germinating in George’s imagination for several years. Gershwin chose to have Porgy and bess given a broadway run at the Alvin Theater rather than a full operatic