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Recently on Twitter, my friend Howard Sherman (@HESherman) started a hashtag topic on the best closing lines from the stage (#beststageclosinglines). Needless to say, I contributed a few of my own, and I'm sure...

Explicit: Yes

Music:

Porgy and Bess - Opening and "Summertime"

Porgy and Bess finale -- "Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way"

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The Craptacular is a youthfully-minded, occasionally snarky, moderately pointless web site about Broadway. It was founded in 2010 by Lucky and the Mick. Lucky is a working writer and editor, an international jetsetter. The Mick is an online marketing maven and a redhead. They are recovering fangirls, and at the moment, they are both totally sober.

When the kids were little, we went to a parents' meeting at their school and I asked the teacher why all her students were geniuses in the second grade? . . . Matisses every one. You've made my child a Matisse. Let me study with you. Let me into the second grade! What is your secret? And this is what she said, "Secrets? I don't have any secret. I just know when to take their drawings away from them." -- Flan (Six Degrees of Separation)

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Listener Jack Lechner teaches about copyright and public domain as part of his NYU film class, and wanted to clarify the situation as it pertains to PORGY AND BESS.

U.S. copyright law says that anything published before 1/1/1923 is in the public domain. (Examples: the Bolton-Wodehouse-Kern shows, or George M. Cohan, or the early Irving Berlin.) Anything published between 1923 and 1977 is copyrighted for 95 years from publication, assuming that all the correct forms were filled out at the correct times. So:

PORGY AND BESS (1935) will enter the public domain in 2030.
DuBose Heyward's novel PORGY (1925) will enter the public domain in 2020; and the straight play version (1927) in 2022.
OKLAHOMA! (1943) will enter the public domain in 2038.
The next batch of shows to enter the public domain will be the crop of 1923 (e.g. POPPY) -- in 2018.

Explicit: No

Music:
The entrance music is “We Open in Venice” from the original cast recording of Kiss Me, Kate, and the exit music is “In Buddy’s Eyes” from the original cast recording of Follies.