How ‘The Outsiders’ Staged a Broadway Fight Club

In a park, at night time, as a prepare screams close by, the youngsters punch, kick and grapple. They roll again and again, gravel sticking to their rain-soaked garments, in a horrible embrace, beating each other bloody. “We didn’t need to romanticize it or sugarcoat it or make it straightforward,” the director Danya Taymor mentioned of this scene within the Broadway musical “The Outsiders.” “It felt actually vital that these moments of violence be terrifying, be brutal.”