It was a stage show that defied the norm, re-creating one of the United Kingdom’s most devastating miscarriages of justice.

And “Make Good: The Post Office Scandal” did it as a musical. There were choreographed dance numbers, power ballads, and pounding rock riffs.

But as this show toured sleepy village halls across England, it also told the story of 983 British Post Office managers falsely accused of theft : allegations that destroyed their reputations, livelihoods, and, for some, landed them in jail. Later, it was revealed that accounting discrepancies due to errors in the Post Office’s Horizon computer system were to blame – a fact that the 364-year-old institution repeatedly tried to cover up.

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