Volunteers outside the USA: Dorothy Heyward died in 1961. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
A Porgy and Bess touring company just played the operatic version in the city near me (Charlotte) and I thought the original might be interesting to have in our catalog. This will be the 750th project I have been involved in at Librivox in the last 12 years.Dorothy Heyward, an American playwright, worked with her husband DuBose to dramatize his book Porgy about the inhabitants of Charleston's Catfish Row (published in 1925 and available here at Librivox). The Heywards insisted upon an African American cast, and the play premiered on Broadway in 1927 and ran for over a year before going on tour. The play which we present here was later adapted into the opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin.
(Summary by ToddHW)
I am sorry that it is not PD for those outside the US and hence am allowing multiple roles if in different acts.
Our DPL is ej400!! Thank you!!
Gender neutral.
Good luck speaking in the written out dialect for some of the characters. At least the "s"s all look like "s"s in this script and not "f"s as they have in some of our other play scripts....
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4097847
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- Project Code: 6OgYS5AP
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuBose_Heyward (DuBose Heyward)
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Heyward (Dorothy Heyward)
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porgy_(play)
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 73
- Does the project have an introduction or preface: No
- Original publication date (if known): 1927
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Genres for the project: Plays/Drama
Keywords that describe the book: Crime, poverty, persecution
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
For individual roles:
Submit one file per act. At the beginning of the first file, say:
Leave 3-5 seconds of space between your lines (room noise, not generated silence)."Character, read by your name."
For narration/stage directions:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
At the end of each file say:"Act # of Porgy, by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org."
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of Act #."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Porgy, by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward."
Filename:
For individual roles: porgy_role_#.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. porgy_romeo_1.mp3)
For final files: porgy_#_heyward_128kb.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. porgy_1_heyward_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: toddhw
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If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.
. so I went back to Porgy to make such I had not missed anything in my three look throughs for my lines there to reassure myself. and instead I found a line on page 31 and on 133 that I did not record. I am sorry, I'd kinda like to add them in after some general feedback on this and not before if that is alright with you. If you would rather I add it in before you listen to them, Ill understand, just let me know.
