The Scottsboro Boys Depart Broadway

Kander and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys plays its final performance at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.

Directed by Susan Stroman and featuring a book by David Thompson, the musical is based on the notorious “Scottsboro” case in the 1930s, where nine African American men were unjustly accused of attacking two white women on a train in Alabama. The young men were convicted by an all-white jury and spent years in jail, while the case was tried and retried. The musical uses the bygone minstrel show performance style to tell the boys' story and recently came under attack from protestors who did not approve of the minstrel format.