The Scottsboro Boys

Phoenix Theatre
100 E McDowell Road Phoenix

The last musical collaboration by the legendary theater team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret) snagged 12 Tony nominations in its 2010 Broadway run. Framed within the ironic construct of a minstrel show, The Scottsboro Boys tells the true story of nine young African-American men, who were convicted in 1931 Alabama of a shocking crime they didn't commit, and whose long fight for justice helped spark the civil rights movement. The Associated Press praised the score, saying "Kander's melodies are effortless, pouring out in a variety of styles from cakewalk to folk ballad to comic ditty." Don't miss this classic masterpiece when it takes the stage of the Phoenix Theatre at Hormel Black Box Theatre.