![]() The character of Scout, based on herself, has come to define youthful innocence - and its inevitable loss - for generation after generation of readers around the world. ![]() Inspired by Lee's own childhood in Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird features one of literature’s towering symbols of integrity and righteousness in the character of Atticus Finch, based on Lee’s own father. Welch: “I hope that they’re coming out with a great, great sense of empathy, and a desire to act.”įor more information and to buy tickets, click here.Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning American classic To Kill a Mockingbird comes to Broadway in a new adaptation by Aaron Sorkin, Directed by Bartlett Sher. “But this book would present ideas that might inspire people to want to change and eradicate racism.”Įmily Putnam: “What do you hope audiences take away?” ”I think America particularly is at a divide… in how we should move forward, in which direction we should go,” said Welch. It’s the story of our story – people don’t want to look at the problem.”įrom the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s to today’s Black Lives Matter movement, this story about injustice, childhood, and standing up for what is right continues to triumph. “Because it’s precisely the problem we’re in right now. ”I think it’s absolutely relevant that this book… there are people who want to ban this book,” said Thomas. Some school districts across the country moving to ban it. The novel has been a staple on school bookshelves for decades, and recently it’s been the subject of debate. ![]() ”It speaks to what we feel as Americans about our idealized sense of who we are, and that an idealized sense of who we are isn’t sufficient to the people who are not cared for.” ”Aaron Sorkin has given us a slightly more accessible, flawed, and teachable Atticus, and he has created a narrative for him of a loss of innocence which parallels that of the kids in the story,” said Thomas. You might recognize him from his role as “John-Boy” on the hit show The Waltons. Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas plays the venerable Atticus Finch. Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin’s 2018 version, which has eight performances in Rochester this week, has been hailed as “the most successful American play in Broadway history” by 60 Minutes, and “an emotionally shattering landmark production of an American classic” by Rolling Stone, among other glowing reviews.Īmong the cast is Mary Badham, who played young Scout in the 1962 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck. The novel won A Pulitzer Prize and has been adapted for the stage and screen. “And it’s 1934 and the system is working against him.” ”He’s a 25-year-old man who is on trial for being accused of rape, something he couldn’t have possibly done because he’s disabled,” said Welch. ![]() It’s a story of racial injustice, set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama in 1934. Written by Harper Lee and published in 1960, To Kill A Mockingbird has become one of the most influential stories in American history. The national tour of To Kill A Mockingbird opens Tuesday night at Rochester Broadway Theatre League’s Auditorium Theater and runs through Sunday, June 18. – This week, the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history is in Rochester. ![]()
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