Articles about The Scottsboro Boys
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The Lyceum Theatre box office 149 West 45th Street opens on Thursday, September 2 for the exhilarating new Kander amp Ebb musical, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS.
With its high-energy ensemble and dynamic direction and choreography, this darkly provocative musical makes a fitting swan song for the duo behind "Cabaret" and "Chicago."
Following successful runs Off-Broadway and at the Guthrie Theatre, The Scottsboro Boys begins performances at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre Oct. 7.According to press notes, the show ̶…
Racing to Broadway By CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY Wall Street Journal October 19, 2010 David Thompson wants to do justice to the story of the Scottsboro boys. Mr. Thompson wrote the book for …
The final Kander and Ebb musical, The Scottsboro Boys (* * * out of four), now in its Broadway premiere, seems determined to challenge even the most sophisticated and inured audiences.
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS will play its final performance on Broadway this Sunday, December 12.
Kander and Ebb's final collaboration, which turns a civil-rights parable into a minstrel show, is, on its own discomfiting terms, utterly successful.
Every moment of sheer genius — and in the score, there are many — is met with an equal instance of what-were-they-thinking disappointment. The result is a show that annoys just a…
Insensitivity is not the problem in a show that's a mixed bag of arresting, entertaining and disappointing.
The last show written by John Kander and Fred Ebb has pulled together, setting a high bar for Broadway musicals this season.
At the final Broadway performance of the musical The Scottsboro Boys on Dec. 12, the standing ovation came before a note of music played at the Lyceum Theatre.
A film adaptation of the racially charged Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys could be on the horizon for Academy Award-nominated "Precious" director Lee Daniels.
CRITICS RAVE FOR ON BROADWAY THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, the thrilling final collaboration by musical theatre giants John Kander and Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret), opened Sunday, October 31 at the Ly…
It's exciting to see "The Scottsboro Boys" on Broadway boasting so many things a musical should have. That includes good songs, a provocative story (not from a movie), a rousing staging and …
The final collaboration of composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb uses minstrelsy to tell a dark Southern tale
Despite its continued ossification as a touristic and corporate stronghold, weird things can still happen on Broadway.
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, the exhilarating new Kander amp Ebb musical, opens Sunday, October 31 at the Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street. THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS is the final collaboration by music…
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, the exhilarating new Kander and Ebb musical, opens Sunday, October 31 at the Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street. Previews began on October 7.
It's sharp and snappy, imaginative and heartfelt. It has a real American tragedy to tell and some of the best in the business to tell it.
Nine teenagers, falsely accused of rape in a racially charged 1930s case, inspired two landmark Supreme Court cases and a book of poems by Langston Hughes. Now their story is a musical from …
This play dares to do things that, sadly, shouldn't be tried these days on Broadway.
