The album was recorded March 26 and 27 and will arrive in stores May 22. PS Classics co-founder and Porgy and Bess album producer Tommy Krasker began his producing career with an acclaimed series of Gershwin studio cast recordings in the early 1990's. 

The track list follows:

DISC ONE
"Overture"
"Summertime"
"Roll Them Bones"
"A Woman Is a Sometime Thing"
"Porgy's Entrance"
"Crap Game"
"The Killing of Robbins"
"Gone, Gone, Gone"
"My Man's Gone Now"
"Leaving for the Promised Land"
"It Takes a Long Pull to Get There"
"I Got Plenty of Nothing"
"I Hates Your Strutting Style"
"Picnics is all right…"
"Bess, You Is My Woman Now"
"Oh, I Can’t Sit Down"

DISC TWO
"It Ain’t Necessarily So"
"What You Want With Bess?"
"Oh, Doctor Jesus"
"Street Cries"
"I was powerful sick…"
"I Loves You, Porgy"
"The Storm Approaches"
"Oh, The Lord Shake the Heaven"
"A Red Headed Woman"
"Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Reprise)
"Clara Don't You Be Downhearted"
"Summertime" (Reprise)
"The Death of Crown"
"There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York"
"Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?"
"Oh Lord, I'm on My Way"

Sound clips of the recording are also available at PSClassics.com. Norm Lewis (Sondheim on Sondheim, Side Show, Les Miserables) stars as the crippled beggar Porgy opposite four-time Tony Award Audrea winner McDonald (Ragtime, Marie Christine, Master Class) as Bess. Visit the Playbill Vault page for Porgy and Bess.

The opera has music by George Gershwin, lyrics by his brother Ira and a book and additional lyrics by DuBose Heyward. It is based on the play Porgy, by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward.

The cast album of Porgy and Bess is currently available for pre-order from the PS Classics website. Orders placed via PS Classics will ship two weeks prior to the in-store release.

For other show recordings, visit the Playbill Store.

On the same day that Porgy and Bess hits stores (May 22), PS Classics will release a studio cast album of George Gershwin's earliest existing score — 1924's Sweet Little Devil. It has lyrics by B.G. DeSylva.

Porgy and Bess includes such songs as "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," "I Loves You, Porgy," "My Man's Gone Now," "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York," "Summertime," "I Got Plenty o' Nothin'" and "It Ain't Necessarily So."

	Joshua Henry and Nikki Renée Daniels
	photo by Michael J. Lutch

The ensemble includes Allison Blackwell, Roosevelt Andre Credit, Trevon Davis, Joseph Dellger, Wilkie Ferguson, Alicia Hall Moran, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Lisa Nicole Wilkerson, Christopher Innvar, Carmen Ruby Floyd, David Hughey and Julius Thomas III.

Tony-nominated Hair director Diane Paulus directs the streamlined, two-and-a-half-hour version of the musical, which replaces portions of the sung recitative with dialogue. It opened Jan. 12 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre and recently extended its run through Sept. 30. The Gershwin and Heyward estates gave Paulus their blessing to take a fresh approach to the four-hour opera. Paulus brought on board Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog, Book of Grace), who is credited with adaptation and additional scenes, and Pulitzer Prize nominee Diedre Murray (Running Man), credited with musical adaptation.

According to the producers, Porgy and Bess "is set in Charleston’s fabled Catfish Row, where the beautiful Bess struggles to break free from her scandalous past, and the only one who can rescue her is the crippled but courageous Porgy. Threatened by her formidable former lover Crown, and the seductive enticements of the colorful troublemaker Sporting Life, Porgy and Bess’ relationship evolves into a deep romance that triumphs as one of theater’s most exhilarating love stories."

Founded in 2000 by Tommy Krasker & Philip Chaffin, and a six-time Grammy nominee (for its cast albums of Assassins, Nine: The Musical, Grey Gardens, Company, A Little Night Music and Sondheim on Sondheim), PS Classics celebrates the heritage of Broadway and American popular song through its award-winning cast recordings; solo albums by Kate Baldwin, Maureen McGovern, Victoria Clark, Jessica Molaskey and Christine Andreas; and recordings drawn from rare sound archives, including "Sondheim Sings." The company recently released a lavish, two-disc album of the Broadway revival of Follies.

For tickets, visit Ticketmaster.com. The Richard Rodgers Theatre is located at 226 West 46th Street.