The Scottsboro Boys

FINAL WEEK: Performances Thurs (tonight), Fri, Sat & Sun

Andrea Simakis of Plain Dealer wrote The Scottsboro Boys “is worthy of ovation.”

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

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.

Pre-Show Talk will be held in the Main Gallery (inside the main building, next to the Mackey Theater) on 7:15 p.m. this Saturday Feb. 22^nd with Peter Lawson Jones. 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.