The Young Vic's production of The Scottsboro Boys has confirmed the details of its previously rumoured West End transfer.
The musical will open at the Garrick Theatre, replacing Twelve Angry Men, on Monday 20th October 2014 (previews from 4th October). Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, tickets go on general sale today (30th April 2014).
Kander and Ebb's final musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2010. It tells the true story of nine young black men, aged between 12 and 19, who were falsely accused of rape by two white women while travelling on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama in the 1930s. Their subsequent trials and appeals, lasting seven years, deeply divided the nation.
Only last year the Scottsboro Boys Act was finally passed, posthumously exonerating the last eight of the nine boys. The Scottsboro Boys was recently nominated for six Olivier Awards and won the Critics' Circle award for Best Musical.
Casting to be announced.
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