admin | March 31, 2023
About a week ago both theNew York Timesand theWall Street Journaldevoted considerable space to the coverage of Parade, the revival of a 1998 Broadway musical on the 1915 killing of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, Georgia, arguably the most famous lynching in American history. Frank had been convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young girl in his employ and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in an effort to save his life. After numerous legal appeals failed, the states governor eventually commuted Franks sentence and a group of outraged citizens responded by hanging Frank
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admin | March 27, 2023
Theres a moment in Parade, the musical revival that opened last week on Broadway, that encapsulates the shows subversiveness. Its also the moment that seals the demise of the dramas protagonist, Leo Frank.
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admin | March 20, 2023
Parade centers on the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank. Photo by Joan Marcus By Rebecca SalzhauerMarch 16, 2023 Theres a moment near the end of Parade when Leo Frank sings the Shema. Surrounded by a mob intent on killing him, he quivers in a nightshirt, a sack tied around his waist for modesty, a noose around his neck.
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admin | March 20, 2023
You do not expect the star of a musical about a man lynched by an antisemitic mob to be his wife. Especially when that man, Leo Frank, who was murdered in Georgia in 1915, is played, with his usual intensity and vocal drama, by Ben Platt. Yet in the riveting Broadway revival of the musical Parade that opened on Thursday at the Bernard B
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admin | March 20, 2023
How well do modern theatregoers seeing Parade, at the BernardB. Jacobs, know the story of Leo Frank? Its been more than a century since Frank, the Jewish superintendent of an Atlanta pencil factory, was accused of the sexual assault and murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, railroaded into a guilty verdict, tantalized with the possibility of an appeal, then kidnapped from prison and lynched in Marietta, Georgia.
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admin | March 7, 2023
NEW YORK On Feb. 21 about a dozen ultrarightists showed up outside the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Parade to hold a Jew-hating protest, targeting the plays central figure Leo Frank. Frank, a Jewish factory manager at an Atlanta pencil factory and president of the Atlanta chapter of Bnai Brith, was framed up on charges of raping a 13-year-old worker and lynched by a Jew-hating mob over a century ago
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admin | March 2, 2023
opinion Jason Robert Brown| Opinion contributor There were neo-Nazis on Broadway last week. The night of the first preview of the newBroadway production of "Parade,"audience members waiting to enter the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater were harangued by members of a far-right white supremacist group, The National Socialist Movement
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admin | February 28, 2023
The theater world recoiled Wednesday after neo-Nazis held an antisemitic demonstration outside the first Broadway preview of a revival of Parade, a musical about an American Jew who was wrongfully convicted of murder and lynched a century ago. About 12 protesters linked to the National Socialist Movement a prominent neo-Nazi group with half-century-old roots took part in the vile Tuesday night demonstration, said Rick Miramontez, a spokesman for the musical. The Benjamin Jacobs Theatre on West 45th street where the production "Parade" is playing.
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admin | February 23, 2023
When Parade held its first Broadway preview at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre last evening, members of an antisemitic neo-Nazi group protested outside. Parade, a revival of a 1998 musical written by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown, tells the story of the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish man, in Georgia in 1915.
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admin | January 31, 2023
In the spring of 1913, Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old factory worker, was found murdered in the basement of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. In what would become one of the most notorious cases in Georgia history and one that still resonates today Leo Frank, the superintendent of the factory, was accused of her murder. A Northerner and a Jew, Frank was swiftly convicted and sentenced to death.
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