The Scottsboro Boys
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Composer: John KanderComposer: Fred Ebb
Performer: Joshua Henry
Performer: John Cullum
Performer: Josh Breckenridge
Performer: Colman Domingo
Performer: Jeremy Gumbs
Performer: Rodney Hicks
Performer: Kendrick Jones
Performer: James T. Lane
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2010-10-12
Music Label: Jay Records
Soundtracks:
- Minstrel March / Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey!
- Our Story Begins
- Commencing In Chattanooga
- Alabama Ladies
- Nothin'
- Electric Chair
- Go Back Home
- Shout!
- Make Friends With The Truth
- That's Not The Way We Do Things
- Never Too Late
- Financial Advice
- Southern Days
- Commencing In Chattanooga (Reprise)
- Alabama Ladies
- It's Gonna Take Time
- Zat So?
- You Can't Do Me
- The Scottsboro Boys
- Go Back Home (Bonus Track) [*]
Music reviews of The Scottsboro Boys
Music Review: GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!
Rating: 5 Stars
John Kander and the late Fred Ebb have a knack of working on dark, provocative stories and filling them with infectiously toe-tapping songs.
Cabaret--The rise to power of the Nazi
Chicago--Women who kill and beat the rap
And now The Scottsboro Boys--a story about 9 young black males falsely accused and convicted of raping two white girls. The story is told as a Minstrel show featuring John Cullum as the interlocutor, and his two co-horts, Mr Bones and Mr. Tambo.
The show even depicts the road toward racial equality as the opening scene is of a black woman sitting on a bench waiting for a bus and the final scene when she boards the bus she is told, "Coloreds sit in the back" and she refuses saying "I won't sit in the back, no more. No More."
The opening number "Minstrel March/Hey, Hey Hey" and the closer "The Scottsboro Boys" are shamelessly toe-tapping, banjo strumming, thigh-slapping tambourine ringing songs but the lyrics for The Scottsboro Boys" despite the infectious melody, are contradictory in tone as it relates the sad fates of the 9 young black males.
The entire score is excellent and along with the two numbers I have mentioned, other songs such as, "Alabama Ladies" "Electric Chair" "Go Back Home" "Shout" "Make Friends With The Truth" "That's Not The Way We Do Things"
"Southern Days" are stand-outs.
Do yourself a favor and get this CD if you are a fan of musical theatre and although "Curtains" was believed to have been the last complete Kander and Ebb score, with the surfacing of The Scottsboro Boys here's hoping there are a few other gems waiting in the wings.
Description of The Scottsboro Boys
"An astounding production! The Scottsboro Boys will leave you shattered. It's the definition of inspired theatre." -- Huffington Post"Masterful! A show that should be seen and remembered. Fascinating!" -- Epoch Times
"A masterwork! A triumph! Four stars! If you see one show this season, make it The Scottsboro Boys. It's as simple as that." -- New York Post
"Pitch perfect! A staggeringly inventive piece of musical theatre! Entertainment of the highest order, with inspired direction and choreography by Susan Stroman. An exhilarating evening of theatre!" -- Associated Press
"Scottsboro is dazzling, riveting, and toe-tapping with real teeth! We're in the hands of superior musical theater craftsmen." -- Variety
"A cause for rejoicing! The score is gorgeously and memorably melodic!" -- Entertainment Weekly
The original cast recording of Kander & Ebb's new musical for Broadway--and one of the few rare instances in which the album is available prior to the Broadway opening!
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