Spike Lee Eyes High-Profile Broadway Adaptations
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Spike Lee Eyes High-Profile Broadway Adaptations

It’s been over 50 years since the Broadway hit, Porgy and Bess, was last adapted for the silver screen. In 1959, Otto Preminger helmed a production which paired Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier in the title roles, and it’s become the definitive movie version of the story, which is ultimately based on a 1925 novel,…