Aaron Sorkin Read to Kill a Mockingbird

Aaron Sorkin calls stories "the best delivery system ever invented for an idea."

Because of that, the Emmy and Gilt Earth-winning scribe backside the Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee'due south "To Kill A Mockingbird" says  "I tin can't think of a worse time to non be doing the play than the terminal year and a half."

We rely on theater for condolement, for agreement, to expand our worldview, to share ideas, to help us escape for an 60 minutes or two.

So to have "Mockingbird" — and all of Broadway — nighttime equally the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police force, isolation, reckonings over social justice, racial equity, calumniating atmospheres and more both within the theater globe and beyond was especially difficult.

"It was more than than we all missed each other, and we all miss doing that together," Sorkin said.

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Instead, he said, the play itself, with its resonant themes of racism, morality and justice, was sorely missed.

"Information technology was more relevant than you'd ever want it to be. So it feels bully to be bringing it dorsum."

To commemorate the return of "Mockingbird" and the unabridged Broadway globe, the producers of the evidence created a video, written by Sorkin and voiced by Emmy Honor winner Jeff Daniels, who returns to play Atticus Finch when the play returns to Broadway on October. 5. Celia Keenan-Bolger, who won a Tony Honour for playing Scout, too is ready to return.

View the video above.

"I wanted to remind people what the audition experience is like, which we've been without for a year and a half," Sorkin said.

"We've been watching things by ourselves in dissimilar places and at dissimilar times. So I want to remind people about the audience experience of a whole grouping of people laughing at the aforementioned fourth dimension, silence at the same time, gasping at the same time, crying at the same time, continuing and cheering at the same time. That'due south an experience you tin't get from your laptop."

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"Mockingbird" returns to a inverse landscape. It has to.

Gone is producer Scott Rudin, who stepped away from the show and the amusement arena following allegations of calumniating behavior. Orin Wolf now is serving as executive producer.

Other changes include a planned diversity and inclusion seminar before rehearsals begin, function of a commitment to equity.

"You want equally many different people telling stories every bit possible," Sorkin said.

He expects that the changed theater and globe landscape will touch the fashion audiences experience "Mockingbird."

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"People who were coming starting from opening night a couple of years agone were of a sudden seeing 'Mockingbird' differently than they did when they read the book when they were in seventh- or eighth-class, or when they saw the movie," he said. "And so given everything that's happened over the concluding year and a one-half, they are bound to to receive it differently."

"To Kill A Mockingbird" returns to the Shubert Theatre, 225 Due west. 44th St., on October. 5. For tickets and more data, visit tokillamockingbirdbroadway.com.

Ilana Keller is an award-winning journalist and lifelong New Jersey resident who loves Broadway and really bad puns. She highlights arts advancement and education, theater fundraisers and more through her column, "Sightlines." Attain out on Twitter: @ilanakeller; ikeller@gannettnj.com

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