In 2002, director/choreographer Susan Stroman and book writer David Thompson met with renowned musical collaborators John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written the music and lyrics for Chicago, Cabaret, and Curtains, among others. The group wanted to create a musical together. In researching famous American court cases, hoping to find fruitful material, they stumbled upon the case of the Scottsboro Boys.
The story of the real-life Scottsboro Boys begins on March 25, 1931 on a boxcar bound for Memphis, Tennessee. A group of white teenagers jumped off the train and reported to the local sheriff
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