Didn't Jim Nabors already do Porgy?
too bad there isn't some purist who owns shakespeare copyrights.
then we'd be spared seeing "hip" and "modern" interpretations of his plays with female julius caesers, gay romeo and julius, macbeth set in the board room of a fortune 500 company, albino midget othellos etc. (well I've never seen any productions like this, but they're not far off from what "clever" people have done.