1 year since Scottsboro Boys closing

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:28pm

Just 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

[singer73192]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:32pm

I 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!

[Katurian2]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:33pm

Thanks 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.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:37pm

For 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.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:43pm

Thank 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]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 7:56pm

As the others have said, thanks for sharing this. Never saw it before and loved the show.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 9:53pm

That video was terribly sad. I cried a bit.

[Emmaloucbway]

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]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 11:39pm

[energy12]

Posted: 12/12/11 at 11:48pm

It shows people hating stuff for no reason.

[gcontini2]

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".

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 12:11am

I hate that this show closed and that has everything to do with hate.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 12:23am

Wasn'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.

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 12:29am

The 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.

[binau]

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

[dramamama611]

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'.

[beaemma]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 5:41pm

For 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]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 6:04pm

Is anyone familiar with the Old Globe Theatre? This might be a good excuse for a trip to San Diego this spring!

[Pippin]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 6:35pm

yes, 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.