Review: "The Scottsboro Boys"

[@agenttheater5]

When you know the story you don't think it'd work....but it does. A smile and the bitterness behind that smile. My guess is that Kander and Ebb reckon that people would rather see a show than talk about what's wrong with the world....so they give them a show about the problems in the world

[@mpd4165]

@AnkHotep969 Part 2: When it is revealed who the Lady is, you see that their story did reach someone. It ignited change and in essence, the march for civil rights. The show IS unsettling, and the creative team of course understands that to create a minstrel show today was going to upset a lot of people (as evident by your very understandable passion against it), but it reveals the evils of the system that denied these men the justice they deserved.

[@mpd4165]

@AnkHotep969 I, as you, have not seen the production. Having read the script though...it uses a horrific form of entertainment to tell a horrific story. It's all to a point, and if you don't "go for it" so to speak, then it can fall flat.

[@mpd4165]

@AnkHotep969 It seems that you are seeing the show only on the surface level, which is the minstrel show structure. Does it make a difference if I tell you that near the end of the show the men rebel against the interlocutor, saying that they are no longer going to be his song-and-dance men? They wanted to tell the truth (as is Haywood's aim the entire show), and they stand up AGAINST the form that is awful because it does not allow them to tell the story as it truly happened.

[@piecesofme8531]

That sort of cutesy turn does not dismiss the fact that it is still a minstrel show…