The Scottsboro Boys Depart Broadway
Kander and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys plays its final performance at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. Directed by Susan Stroman and featuring a book by David Thompson, the musical is based on the notorious “Scottsboro” case in the 1930s, where nine African American men were unjustly accused of attacking two white women on a train in Alabama. The young men were convicted by an all-white jury and spent …