Parade
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 23, 2011
Closed Oct 30, 2011
Opened Sep 23, 2011
Closed Oct 30, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Tony Award-winning musical drama Parade features the true story of Leo Frank's trial and lynching in early 20th-century Atlanta. Ostracized for his faith and Northern heritage, Jewish factory manager Leo Frank is accused of murdering a teenaged factory girl the day of the annual Confederate Memorial Day parade. Alfred Uhry's award-winning book and Jason Robert Brown's rousing, colorful and haunting score illuminate a circus of conflicting accounts, false testimony and mishandled evidence in a town reeling with social and racial tension. Isolated from the world, Leo develops a new and deeper love for his wife, who tirelessly crusades for his freedom. Stephen Rayne (The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Sabrina Fair) directs this compelling and provocative tale of justice miscarried, revealing a country at odds with its declarations of equality. Tony-Award nominee Euan Morton stars as Leo Frank.
Parade is a co-production with Theater J, and is presented in association with the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. Part of the Lincoln Legacy Project.
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Despite first-rate performances by its leading players, there's something ultimately missing in the new production of Parade, which has a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alfred Uhry and score by Jason Robert Brown, being co-presented by Ford's Theatre and Theater J.
The show, which is based on the true story of Leo Frank (Euan Morton), a Jewish, transplanted Northerner who was falsely convicted and subsequently lynched for the 1913 murder of a girl in Atlanta is a prickly and provocative piece, and director Stephen Rayne's production requires firmer thematic focus, a more consistent tone, and maybe even a paring back of the score to fully harness its potential.
The material is dense and mult[...]