Thursday, February 27, 2020
Photo Coverage: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Makes History at Madison Square Garden Performance
www.broadwayworld.com: Just yesterday, a capacity crowd of 18,000 New York City public school students made history, along side the Broadway cast of To Kill A Mockingbird. Aaron Sorkin's new play, directed by Bartlett Sher, and based on Harper Lee's classic novel, became the first-ever Broadway play to perform at The World's Most Famous Arena, New York's Madison Square Garden.
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I’m a little jealous that I didn’t get to see this. I feel like everyone and their mother has had to read To Kill a Mockingbird at one point in their educational experience. I will stand by my opinion that Harper Lee’s novel is one of the best novels ever written. Maybe I don’t loathe the story because unlike many of my friends, I was never forced to read and analyze the play for class. I think it’s important that TKaM is exposed to students in school, but sometimes the best way to learn is not in a classroom or at home reading. Getting to see the action and themes of the play being presented in a physical sense is how I understand things better, and I’m sure out of the 18,000 student crowd, a bunch of them learn like that too. It will be interesting to see if other shows get adapted for events like this.
The theatre industry is good at producing shows with important messages that should be seen by a diverse audience, and yet the theatre industry is often so inaccessible for the exact audience the show is intended for. I think what To Kill a Mockingbird did with this show, doing a free performance at Madison Square Garden for New York City public school kids is great. I think it is so cool that 18000 people were able to see this show on one night. There is no experience like seeing live theatre, so I think it must have been incredible to be seeing a live show with 18,000 other people. I saw this show on Broadway in January with my brother who usually hates theatre, but after the show, he told me he cried watching it and really did enjoy it (even though he had to miss watching a football game to see it.) So I hope every student that was able to see it got something out of it even if they didn’t previously like theatre or like the book when they had to read it in school.
Wow! This looks like it was quite the spectacle. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books, and I have yet to see the show but it’s one that I’m dying to see. I had no clue they were planning on doing such a large performance of the show and even Spike Lee was there, which seemed odd, but fitting based on the type of movies he makes. It makes me glad that this was the show chosen for such a large performance because the racial themes and messages of To Kill a Mockingbird are so important to share. The story is a classic and it’s wonderful to see that the main crowd were students. The story is known for being controversial at some schools, yet people defend it because what the book is trying to say to children about prejudice is so important for them to understand. I’m glad they got to experience such a special story in such a special way.
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