London's The Scottsboro Boys, Starring Brandon Victor Dixon, Sets West End Closing Date

Fresh off the news that it picked up the London Evening Standard Award for Best Musical, the West End production of The Scottsboro Boys has set its closing date. Kander and Ebb’s tuner will end its run at the Garrick Theatre on February 21, 2015. Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, the show officially opened on October 20.

The musical is based on the notorious “Scottsboro” case of the 1930s, in which 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 Scottsboro Boys first played off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre and the Guthrie Theatre prior to opening on Broadway in 2010, earning 12 Tony nominations, including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical. The tuner received its London premiere at the Young Vic in 2013 before transferring to the West End.

The production currently stars Tony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon, who originated the role of Haywood Patterson in the first US production of The Scottsboro Boys, along with Joshua Da Costa, Colman Domingo, Julian Glover, Dawn Hope and Emanuel Kojo.