Per the Times, Rudin emailed Sorkin and Sher on July 29 to explain that he decided not to bring the play back because of his “lack of confidence in the climate for plays next winter.” “I do not believe that a remount of Mockingbird would have been competitive in the marketplace,” he reportedly wrote, adding, “It’s too risky and the downside is too great. To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a darker drama about the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice, probing how good and evil can coexist within a single community or individual. The Broadway return of To Kill a Mockingbird, already rescheduled once, was most recently set for November 2 at the Music Box Theater.

In the wake of the allegations, Rudin also resigned from the Broadway League and said he would step back from film projects. It has not played to a single empty seat. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Digital Art. Rudin owns the rights to the stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel, but stepped away from an active role in the production in 2021 after many of his former employees came forward to accuse him of workplace abuse and harassment. The New York Times Critics Pick To Kill a Mockingbird is the most successful American play in Broadway history. When Aaron Sorkin first sat down to write a stage adaptation of To. To Kill a Mockingbird, which first opened on Broadway in 2018, was a pre-pandemic hit that regularly made around $2 million in weekly ticket sales. The new Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird features Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch and Gbenga Akinnagbe as Tom Robinson. The pair added that they were “heartbroken” about the imminent loss of jobs onstage, backstage, and in the front of the house. “At the last moment, Scott reinserted himself as producer and for reasons which are, frankly, incomprehensible to us both, he stopped the play from opening,” Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher reportedly wrote in a July 28 email to the play’s cast and crew. And according to emails obtained by the New York Times, Rudin is the reason why. As Showbiz411 first reported, the adaptation written by Aaron Sorkin won’t be returning to Broadway. The acclaimed production is scheduled to reopen at Broadways. But is it a sin to kill To Kill a Mockingbird? Apparently not to Scott Rudin. Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird plays its final performance at Broadways Shubert Theatre January 16. Atticus Finch famously once said that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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