The Scottsboro Boys

February 7 – February 23, 2020, Mackey Theater

Produced by Beck Center for the Arts in collaboration with Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program

Preview Night this Thursday, Feb 6 at 8:00 p.m., just $10 each. Purchase tickets at http://bit.ly/ScottsboroPreview

Stay in the theater directly after the production ends for a free Post-Show Talkback with the director and select cast members.

 



Nominated for 12 Tony Awards ®, The Scottsboro Boys is the ninth annual Baldwin Wallace University Music Theater Program Collaboration. Regional Premiere. Based on the Scottsboro Boys’ trial. Created by Kander & Ebb. Like Cabaret and Chicago this musical creates a dynamic social critique.

A Post-Show Talk will take place after the Preview performance on Thursday, Feb 6 inside the Mackey Theater. Stay after that one select performance to meet the director and select cast members. This event is FREE.

Pre-Show Talks will be held in the Main Gallery (inside the main building, right next to the Mackey Theater) on Sunday Feb. 16th at 2:15 p.m. and 7:17 p.m. on Saturday Feb. 22nd. Pre-Show Talks are FREE.

This production contains adult content and language

Creative Team

·      Music and Lyrics by John Kander & Fred Ebb 

·      Book by David Thompson

·      Directed & Choreographed by Jon Martinez

·      Original Direction & Choreography by Susan Stroman

Presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI)

 

“’Scottsboro’ contains what might be the most beautiful song they (Kander & Ebb) wrote — ‘Go Back Home,’ a mournful ballad of longing enough to bring to tears anyone who ever has been away and in trouble”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Presented with the support of FGI Foundation, a supporting foundation of Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Francine M. Gordon, Trustee.