Historical clue formulations

• Bess's beau on Broadway — 2026-04-02
• "___ and Bess" — 2021-03-08
• Catfish Row resident — 2007-07-22
• DuBose Heyward novel on which an opera was based — 2006-09-21
• Gershwin hero — 1996-10-11
• Gershwin hero — 1994-06-27