The Scottsboro Boys

[deliasherman]

I'd love to write a long and thoughtful piece about this play, about rage and art and history and how to make it all palatable enough to a modern audience so that they'll take in what they need to hear and not simply walk out at intermission (or in the middle of a production number, since The Scottsboro Boys is played without intermission).  I'll

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[negothick]

Want more strange coincidences? I've been doing some work on American minstrel shows, a form long-lived enough that I actually appeared in one--in a sort of blackface--in the 1950s. And just last week, Andrea Hairston read from a novel in progress that incorporates black minstrel performers as magic-workers. I sense a disturbance in the Force. . .

[ellen_kushner]

Any chance you can run in & see "Scottsboro Boys" before it closes? Our guest room is at your disposal. If there are discount tix, they'll be at BroadwayBox.com or TheatreMania.com

[keestone]

Oh wow. I wish I could be there. That sounds like amazing theatre.