‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Won’t Return To Broadway: Aaron Sorkin Blames Scott Rudin – Report
deadline.comTo Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s hit stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel currently on a lengthy Covid-prompted hiatus, will not return to Broadway after all, and both Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher are blaming the original lead producer Scott Rudin.
According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Sorkin and Sher notified the cast and crew late yesterday about the show’s cancelation. “At the last moment, Scott reinserted himself as producer and for reasons which are, frankly, incomprehensible to us both, he stopped the play from reopening,” Sorkin and Sher wrote, according to The Times.
Rudin, of course, is the Broadway and Hollywood producer who ostensibly stepped away from all of his productions, including Mockingbird, following allegations of bullying and physical abuse of his staff.
Rudin, according to an email obtained by The Times, informed Sorkin and Sher that his decision “not to bring back TKAM has to do with my lack of confidence in the climate for plays next winter.” Rudin continued, “I do not believe that a remount of Mockingbird would have been competitive in the marketplace.” Although Rudin was believed to have discontinued taking an active role in the play’s production, he continues to control rights to the stage adaptation.
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