Yaegel T. Welch as Tom Robinson, Stephen Elrod, Jacqueline Williams as Calpurnia and Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch.
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“You also get more of an idea of how much [Calpurnia’s] been a surrogate mother to Jem and Scout. Scout was only two when their mother passed,” Jacqueline Williams said. Melanie Moore plays Scout Finch and Jacqueline Williams plays Calpurnia in the Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird.”
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‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ opens May 9 at Bass Concert Hall
The Broadway adaptation of “To Kill A Mockingbird” simultaneously honors and updates Harper Lee’s classic American novel about justice and racism in the South. Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the story follows the familiar original narrative, but utilizes Scout’s youthful inquisitiveness to ask the important questions about the society in which they live. As Sorkin said in an interview in The Atlantic, the characters are “not getting repainted. We’re just taking another look, given the times we’re living in.”
