By Rohan Preston
"The Scottsboro Boys," the last musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb of "Chicago" and "Cabaret" fame, will transfer to Broadway after its Guthrie Theater engagement this summer.
Producer Barry Weissler told the New York Times Tuesday that the show, which runs July 31-Sept. 25 in Minneapolis, will go to the Lyceum Theatre in October. Tony Award-winning director Susan Stroman will stage it.
The musical is based on the 1931 case of an alleged rape of two white runaway women by nine black teens on a train bound for Memphis. The black youth were tried and convicted numerous times in Alabama amidst a lynch-mob setting.
The case twice went to the Supreme Court and established a number of legal precedents.
The musical orignally opened in February off-Broadway.
