1 year since Scottsboro Boys closing

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

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.

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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.

That video was terribly sad. I cried a bit.

"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".

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.

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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

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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.

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.

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