"The idea that this production is now on the road going across America to me is the most exciting step in the journey so far, because this is really an American masterpiece," Paulus says of her reimagined Porgy and Bess." "The whole idea was to bring this piece back and give it to an American audience " for American audiences all over the country to say, 'This work is one of our treasures.' "
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AM on February 2, 2014