Best of Soundcheck: Audra McDonald & Norm Lewis

Soundcheck | May 23, 2012

Four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is currently starring on Broadway in “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”– a newly reworked version of the 1935 American opera. In this special edition of Soundcheck, McDonald joins us in the Greene Space with co-star Norm Lewis to talk about updating an American classic - and to perform songs from the Broadway show.

This is an encore presentation of Soundcheck.

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