CMU School of Drama


Sunday, October 17, 2010

Kander and Ebb’s ‘Scottsboro Boys’ on Broadway

NYTimes.com: "NO star actors. (Check.) A complex cast of characters. (Check.) A plot based on a low moment in American history. (Check.) Songs that satirize racism, anti-Semitism, and execution by electric chair. (Check.) And all told by resurrecting one of theater’s most controversial storytelling devices, the minstrel show. (Check.)

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