What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.