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Friends & Following. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! In 1931, the State of Alabama arrested and jailed nine African American boys on a trumped up charge of rape that would not be "resolved" for eighty-two years. Hey, hey, hey! Let's do a musical about a major civil rights violation in Alabama… in blackface!
Liste détaillée. John Kander est un compositeur et scénariste américain né le 18 mars 1927 à Kansas City, Missouri ( États-Unis ), dont les œuvres les plus connues, en collaboration avec le parolier Fred Ebb, sont les comédies musicales Cabaret et Chicago ainsi que la chanson New York, New York, extraite du film du même nom.
1. Nov. 2016 · By Kamela Dolinova. John Kander and Fred Ebb, the legendary songwriting team behind such dark, political, and highly theatrical musicals as Cabaret, Chicago, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, maintained that high standard with their final collaboration, The Scottsboro Boys, a show based on the infamous 1931 Alabama case that saw nine black teenagers sentenced to death for a crime they didn’t commit.
Kander, a Jewish Midwesterner by birth, recalls reading about the trial of the nine black youths, the Scottsboro Boys who were accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. “When I was a kid” Kander recalls, “it was in the newspaper almost every day. And then some years went on and it was in the paper once in a while…and then it wasn’t in the paper at all. They disappeared as ...
2018. The Landing (Original Off Broadway Cast) 2016. John Kander: Hidden Treasures, 1950-2015. 2015. The Scottsboro Boys (Original London Cast) 2015. The Scottsboro Boys (Original Off Broadway Cast) [Music from the Musical] 2010.
5. Nov. 2016 · Broadway legends John Kander and Fred Ebb’s production of “The Scottsboro Boys” has arrived in my hometown of Boston, running through the end of November in a production by the SpeakEasy ...
29. Mai 2013 · At 86, legendary Broadway composer John Kander still remembers how, as a small boy in an assimilated Jewish home in Kansas City, Mo., he first heard the searing story of the Scottsboro Boys: nine ...
