The Scottsboro Boys, Kander and Ebb’s (Cabaret, Chicago) award-winning and final musical, has transferred to London’s West End for a strictly limited season following its highly acclaimed and sold-out season at the Young Vic. The recipient of the prestigious Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, the critically acclaimed production is directed and choreographed by five-time TONY Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers and Bullets Over Broadway).The show has been nominated for 12 Tony Awards and six Olivier Awards, in addition to winning the Critics’ Circle Best Musical of 2013.
The Scottsboro Boys tells the true story of nine young black men, aged between 12 and 19, travelling on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931 in search of a new life. By the end of their journey their lives had been changed forever. Wrongly accused of an unspeakable crime, their trial would divide a nation. But behind the screaming headlines was the devastating story of nine young men, desperate to prove to the world that they mattered. The Scottsboro Boys had a powerful effect on American history and on the American civil rights movement. Their trials led to the passage of two pivotal Supreme Court rulings, including the right to proper legal representation and the right to trial by a jury of one’s peers, specifically ensuring that black people could no longer be excluded from juries. On 19 April 2013, the Scottsboro Boys Act was finally passed – a historic piece of legislation to posthumously exonerate the last eight of the nine boys, enacted an incredible 82 years later.
Photo credit: Johan Persson
Date: Until 21 February 2015
Venue : Garrick Theatre, 2 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0HH
Time: Monday to Saturday at 7:45pm / Wednesday & Saturday matinees at 2:30pm
Price: Full run prices (From 24 October): £59.50, £49.50, £35, £25 (Monday – Thursday) Tickets: £65, £55, £40, £25 (Friday & Saturday)l Preview prices: (4 October – 23 October): Tickets: £49.50, £39.50, £25, £15 (Monday – Thursday) Tickets: £55, £45, £30, £15 (Friday & Saturday). A £2.50 online and phone booking fee will apply
Box office: 0844 412 4662
Website: www.ScottsboroMusicalLondon.com
Read our original review of The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic.