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Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

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wonderwaiter
#25Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 7:17pm

"We see the world differently."

No sh*t!


And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

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JerseyGirl2
#26Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 7:18pm

Ooooh, it's the new The Capeman!

I feel your manhood...


Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!

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songanddanceman2
#27Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 9:01pm

The idiot who says about doing a musical which includes the gas chambers from WW2, well what about Cabaret?

This is a bunch of people who clearly do not understand the show and will not have seen it.


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Scarywarhol
#28Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 9:21pm

Right, the SAME AUTHORS of the Scottsboro Boys wrote a world-famous musical that was [basically] about the holocaust. It would have been nice if the protestors had done that much research. As for 9/11, of course we would all welcome a musical theatre piece that addressed that time WELL. It would be difficult to do. If many BWW users "protested" it, it would be because the work sucked, not because the subject was offensive.

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thetinymagic2
#29Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 9:33pm

If I was some kind of marketing genius working for the show, I would get my ass moving, and use this "protest" to sell more tix. There's a genius mktg. gimmick somewhere in this. It ART. It's SUPPOSED to be "controversial"! As the age old saying goes, "There's no such thing as Bad Publicity". (Hopefully).

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wendilin622
#30Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 10:01pm

I saw this today too when I was in the city and I was really unsure of what I was seeing. While I haven't seen the show, I do know the trial very well and know this is a story that needs to be told. We need to talk about the insane racism that took place.

The fact is most people don't know about the Scotsboro Trial. I was a history major and didn't learn about it until I took a course in grad school. I couldn't believe something like this actually happened. As a teacher, I make sure to tell my students about this trial because it is crucial that the story of these nine boys is told.

I'm not sure I fully get what they are protesting...

ghostlight2
#31Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 10:04pm

I don't think they do either.

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dramamama611
#32Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 10:20pm

How is telling the story of the Scottsboro Boys racist? They are SHOWING the injustice of the situation.

I thought it was amazing and desperately want to get back.


What a horrible experience for the actors.


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musikman
#33Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 10:48pm

"In helping Christine O'Donnell protest a production of INTO THE WOODS."


^ LOL


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CurtainPullDowner
#34Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 11:41pm

I totally agree with most posters here that the creators of the show are drfinitely not racists and the show is meant to point out that the trial was just as bigoted as the minstrel shows once were.
But even some critics were put off by the uncomfortableness they felt watching it.
When Styne, Comden and Green wrote HALLELUJAH BABY! about the plight of blacks in America they were also questioned on why white people were telling a black story.
As far as using the demonstrators as a PR tool is, in this case, a bad idea.
Inviting talk back and different views is the way to go.

Jon
#35Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 11:45pm

How dare those Gershwin brothers attempt Porgy and Bess?

How dare Steven Speilberg film The Color Purple?

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Mistress_Spouzic
#36Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/6/10 at 11:47pm

CPD, they must disagree with you re: PR, because the Scottsboro Boys twitter page has quite a few relevant retweets!

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PalJoey
#37Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 12:15am

It's misleading for the protesters to compare the Scottboro young defendants to the Central Park 5.

The Scottsboro defendants were innocent and railroaded.

The Central Park 5 confessed on videotape, then claimed their confessions were coerced. Their convictions were vacated when someone stepped forward and claimed he did it alone. But they have never denied that they were part of the gang of 30 who were in Central Park that night "wilding," as the tabloids called it, or "doing the wild thing," as one of them originally described it.

The Scottsboro defendants were not "doing the wild thing" when they were arrested.

It diminishes the injustice they suffered to equate their convictions with those of the "Central Park 5."


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Kad
#38Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 12:18am

How odd that these protesters are so ill-informed of their own cause.


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orangeskittles
#39Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 1:08am

How dare Tyler Perry direct For Colored Girls. A play celebrating women with a man behind the camera telling them what to do? No wonder it sucks. That's so sexist. I'm a woman; I see this happen all the time and you men don't get it. I'm going to stand outside movie theatres and protest Tyler Perry and Ike Turner and any other man who keeps women down.


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julesboogie
#40Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 1:16am

Wanted to share this. A patron took pics and wrote a blog about his experience there today.
Protester Blog

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wonderwaiter
#41Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 1:45am



And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
Updated On: 11/7/10 at 01:45 AM

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MadonnaMusical
#42Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 1:01am

Hhaha i like how the flier asks who would make a musical about concentration camps (Cabaret), and Japanese internment camps (Allegiance: the musical), and Cabaret is by the same composers as this show. lol. hilarious.

So I'm sure 9/11 is next - a musical by the guys that brought you FAT CAMP.

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sondheimboy2
#43Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 1:12am

Does anyone here remember the story "Usher II" from Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles"? In it someone builds a theme park (of some sort) based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and at the end of the story the Head of the Moral Climate Monitors is getting walled up alive, as in "The Cask of Amontillado" and the person who is doing the "walling up" is telling him that one of the reasons why he is doing it because the Moral Climate Monitors ban things not because they think that they are obscene, but because they HAVE HEARD that they are obscene.

I always think of that story whenever I hear of something like this.

I also think of the bit in "Men In Black" when Will Smith finds out that there are aliens on Earth. "Why not tell us", he asks Tommy Lee Jones, "People are smart." "No," Jones tells him, "Human Beings are smart. People are stupid."


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Scarywarhol
#44Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 4:05am

Sondheimboy: I've always loved that Bradbury story.

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chrissydee
#45Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 8:38am

There were protests over Jerry Springer: The Opera here in the UK.... More so when it went on tour and was shown on the BBC than when it was in London.

Q
#46Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 9:11am

Jules - that was a great read - thanks for posting it.

BroadwayBen
#47Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 9:45am

Are we sure they weren't hired by Barry Weissler?

A Director
#48Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/7/10 at 12:35pm

Right, the SAME AUTHORS of the Scottsboro Boys wrote a world-famous musical that was [basically] about the holocaust

Cabaret is NOT basically about the holocaust. For anyone to make this statement proves they are ignorant about history.

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binau
#49Protesting THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Posted: 11/4/12 at 7:54pm

Does anyone remember this unfortunate event?

I wonder if it affected ticket sales.


"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022) "Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009) "Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000