The stage version plays the Pantages in LA through Nov. 27, and then opens in Orange County on Dec. 27.
When writer Aaron Sorkin got word that Harper Lee had personally approved him to adapt her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the Broadway stage, he said yes without a moment’s hesitation.“The reason I said yes – I thought it was a suicide mission – but I said yes because I wanted to be back in the theater,” says Sorkin, whose resume includes writing both the theater and the film version of “A Few Good Men” and creating the TV series “The West Wing.
“I was in too deep now,” Sorkin says. “I just thought, OK, the Bubble Wrap’s got to come off. I can’t try to do a Harper Lee impersonation. And most importantly, I can’t pretend that I’m writing this in 1959. It has to be me writing it today.
“I think it’s always been there,” Welch says. “The injustice, particularly with Black people in America, that stems from racism. It has not ceased. “It’s a very empathetic play,” Thomas says. “We may not like Mayella, but we understand how much of the victim she is and how she is a pawn, and how all this stuff has been inculcated.
“I wanted to keep the kids as protagonists, but I wanted the central protagonist to be Atticus, which meant he needed a flaw and he needed to change,” Sorkin says. “Giving Atticus Finch, America’s dad, a flaw was a scary proposition. Is he a bad father who becomes a good father? Is he a bad lawyer who becomes a good lawyer? Is he a racist who comes to believe in equality and justice? No.
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