Ebb died in 2004, but here his clear, precise and often quite funny lyrics have been finished by Kander, and the transitions are seamless." McWhorter, however, disagreed, writing that "the Scottsboro score isn’t even much. One of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s least celebrated scores, "Steel Pier", is "Porgy and Bess" compared to this one. Time passes for show music writers: the Scottsboro score is perhaps analogous to Cole Porter’s "Aladdin" or Jule Styne’s "The Red Shoes". I would barely suspect Kander and Ebb had written this score if not told." On November 6, 2010, about thirty people gathered outside the Lyceum Theatre to protest "The Scottsboro Boys", arguing that "the use of minstrelsy and blackface were racist." Stroman said she was disappointed that the protesters, who "probably had not seen the musical," had "misunderstood that the creators were not celebrating the minstrel tradition but rather using it to reveal the evils of the system." Weissler said the minstrel show is "not meant to demean or degrade anybody," but rather that it "houses the story we’re trying to tell." Whoopi Goldberg addressed these protests on "The View", saying that "there's been a lot of protests all over New York against this show – a show that people have not seen. The people who are protesting this show, 90% of the people have not seen it. ... People are protesting saying that it shouldn't be a minstrel show, this is too serious. What people don't understand is that you have to bring information to people in a most invigorating way."