ACT has extended the run, now to July 22. Nominated for 12 Tony Awards in 2011, The Scottsboro Boys features music and lyrics by the Broadway songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman), book by David Thompson (Steel Pier, Chicago), musical direction by Eric Ebbenga, and direction and choreography by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Contact).
Jeff Whiting is associate director and choreographer.
Tony and Emmy winner Linden was the star of "Barney Miller" and Broadway's The Rothschilds, among other projects.
The company also features Clifton Duncan as Haywood Patterson, Jared Joseph as Mr. Bones, and JC Montgomery as Mr. Tambo, plus David Bazemore as Olen Montgomery, Cornelius Bethea as Willie Roberson, Nile Bullock as Eugene Williams, Christopher James Culberson as Andy Wright, Eric Jackson as Clarence Norris, James T. Lane as Ozie Powell/Ruby Bates, Clifton Oliver as Charles Weems/Victoria Price, Clinton Roane as Roy Wright, and C. Kelly Wright as The Lady, with Audrey Martells as an understudy for The Lady and Shavey Brown and Max Kumangai as swings.
photo by Henry DiRocco |
The Scottsboro Boys had its world premiere in February 2010 at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. The show moved to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in July 2010, where it played to sold-out houses, before moving to Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre in October 2010.
Read Playbill.com's account of the Dec. 12, 2010, final Broadway performance of The Scottsboro Boys.
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Composer John Kander, director Susan Stroman and their collaborators talk about reinventing the minstrel form: