“Scottsboro Boys”: My Review
Here’s my FT review of the new Kander & Ebb musical, “The Scottsboro Boys.” There’s already talk of the show transferring to Broadway, but the reviews today, though they included some very positive ones, weren’t universal raves. Plus, the thing has no big names to help sell it uptown. But other recent musicals (“In the Heights,” “Next To Normal”) have done well without stars, so I don’t see why “The Scottsboro Boys” shouldn’t transfer later in the year. The ad campaign can blare: “From the creators of ‘Chicago’,” etc. etc.
