Join Charles Troy, and featured singer Cynthia Clarey — both in person and onscreen — on Wednesday, May 1 at 1:30pm. George Gershwin’s 1935 musical theatre masterpiece was a labor of love that had been gestating for years – and perhaps the bravest and most audacious musical show ever to be presented on Broadway. It triumphed over its difficult birth and a variety of issues, extraneous to its artistic merits, to achieve its present consensus stature as the great American opera.

Charles Troy, popular speaker and presenter, is an acclaimed musical theatre historian and graphic designer. He has created over 50 multi-media presentations and had presented his work to countless local and national audiences. His work has also been published in The Sondheim Review.