1 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
1 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
#11 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:28pmJust wanted to reshare this video of The Scottsboro Boys on Closing Night. This wonderful show, and one of the best I've ever seen, closed a year ago tonight. I was at that performance and I still miss the show terribly and feel sad that more people didn't have the opportunity to see the show. Anyway, here's a wonderful video to help remember what I thought to be a perfect show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYtSZlWyvY
#21 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:32pmI so wish we could go back in time and that it could have opened later on in this season. Would have been the definite front runner for the Tonys. Guess we have to be grateful that we saw it at all! It affected me in a way that few other shows have ever done!
#21 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:33pmThanks for the video share! I'd never seen that before, and got a bit teary eyed. I think it was a travesty it didn't last longer on Broadway, as I think it was the most daring musical I've ever seen, and it looked absolutely stunning while doing so. Stroman should have been praised MUCH more than she was for how she made it move so well. The end of 'Make Friends With the Truth' was the most literally jawdropping moment I think I've experienced in theatre. It was difficult, but it was amazingly intelligent the way it continually subverted the emotionality of the piece into something much more complex and confronting.
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#31 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:37pmFor some reason I've been thinking about this one a lot lately. Wish to Christ I could have seen it. Go Back Home is a beautiful song.
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#41 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:43pmThank you for sharing this! This was definitely my favorite show from last season, and I was extremely excited to find out recently that I'll be in Southern California this summer at just the right time to catch the show in San Diego.
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#51 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:56pmAs the others have said, thanks for sharing this. Never saw it before and loved the show.
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Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#61 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 9:53pm
That video was terribly sad. I cried a bit. 
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#71 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 10:16pm
I'm so sad this had such a short run! I loved teh Book of MOrmon, but I think this deserved the tony. if only it opened in the spring and not the winter.... *sigh*
I miss Scottsboro Boys!
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
energy12
Swing Joined: 12/9/11
#91 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/12/11 at 11:48pmIt shows people hating stuff for no reason.
#101 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 12:07am
"It shows people hating stuff for no reason." ????
In what way? This video shows the reality of a talented cast that will be broken up by the market reality of a show that is not selling tickets....Nothing more. Why make this into something bigger than it is?
I saw the show both Off-Broadway and on Broadway....and can tell you it really never should have gone "on" Broadway... This, in my opinion, was simply the move of producers whose egos were larger than that of the good of the show.
The fact that the box office verified this fact is no sadder than any other show which eventually closes in the harsh economics of commercial theater.. It has nothing to do with "hate".
#111 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 12:11amI hate that this show closed and that has everything to do with hate.
#121 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 12:23amWasn't there a theatre in Philadelphia that was supposed to mount a production of this show? I remember reading that shortly after Scottsboro Boys closed on Broadway, but haven't seen anything since.
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#131 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 12:29amThe Philadelphia Theatre Company is doing it in January and February, but I haven't read anything about casting. It looks like Susan Stroman's original direction and choreography will be recreated. I'm thinking I will probably have to pay it a visit.
#141 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 3:47am
I had such a great night at this show, I know a few other posters (including the OP) were at this performance too:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1025261
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#151 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 3:59am
I loved this show more than I can express. I think it is the only show I can say I 'miss'.
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#161 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 5:41pmFor me, SCOTTSBORO BOYS was the best new musical of the past several years. I was eager to see it again and genuinely upset that it closed before I could make another trip to New York. It saddens me greatly that Broadway audiences seem to be getting less and less open to serious, adventurous musical theatre.
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#171 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 6:04pmIs anyone familiar with the Old Globe Theatre? This might be a good excuse for a trip to San Diego this spring!
#181 year since Scottsboro Boys closing
Posted: 12/13/11 at 6:35pmyes, PTC is doing a production Coleman domingo will not be in that production, but Forrest McClendon and some of the other original cast will be there.
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