The Scottsboro Boys

 

The Scottsboro Boys

NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 12: The cast of “The Scottsboro Boys” perform on stage during the 65th Annual Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2011, in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

A musical featuring songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by David Thompson

 

“The Scottsboro Boys” at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/Corbis via Getty Images)

 

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Opened on Broadway in the month of October 2010

Directed by Susan Stroman

Uses minstrel show performance style to tell the story of the boys, came under attack by unsupportive protestors who did not approve of minstrel format.

 

The Scottsboro Boys 2011 Tony Award Performance

  “The Scottsboro Boys”

    -Song by Leadbelly, released in 1990-

 Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

-a movie aired on NBC in 1976

Stories of Scottsboro

-published by James Goodman in 1994 to recount the Scottsboro tragedy from many perspectives

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

-a documentary releases by PBS in 2000  

 

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS – Go Back Home 

 

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS played its final performance on Broadway on December 12th, 2010.

 

 

The Scottsboro Boys Broadway Cast 10th Anniversary Reunion

 

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

Recently, he won the 2022 Legend Award from his alma mater Ohio University.

He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

Research Accomplishments:
His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

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