{"product_id":"9780393240597","title":"\"On My Way\": The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess","description":"\u003cp\u003eA revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero.\u003c\/p\u003e \"Bring my goat!\" Porgy exclaims in the final scene of Gershwin’s opera \u003cem\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/em\u003e. Bess, whom he loves, has left for New York City, and he’s determined to find her. When his request is met with astonishment—New York is a great distance from South Carolina’s Catfish Row—Porgy remains undaunted. He mounts his goat-cart and leads the community in an ecstatic finale, \"Oh Lawd, I’m on my way.\" \u003cp\u003eStephen Sondheim has called \"Bring my goat!\" \"one of the most moving moments in musical theater history.\" For years it was assumed that DuBose Heyward—the author of the seminal novella and subsequent play, \u003cem\u003ePorgy\u003c\/em\u003e, and later the librettist for the opera \u003cem\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/em\u003e—penned this historic line. In fact, both it and \"Oh Lawd, I'm on my way\" were added to the play eight years earlier by that production’s unheralded architect: Rouben Mamoulian. \u003cem\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/em\u003e as we know it would not exist without the contributions of this master director.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulling new information from the recently opened Mamoulian Archives at the Library of Congress, award-winning author Joseph Horowitz shows that, more than anyone else, Mamoulian took Heyward's vignette of a regional African-American subculture and transformed it into an epic theater work, a universal parable of suffering and redemption. Part biography, part revelatory history, \"\u003cem\u003eOn My Way\u003c\/em\u003e\" re-creates Mamoulian's visionary style on stage and screen, his collaboration with George Gershwin, and the genesis of the opera that changed the face of American musical life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104262865136,"sku":"9780393240597","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393240597_p0.jpg?v=1763696624","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393240597","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}