Welcome to the PARADE Archive and Database!
If you're here, it's probably because you love the musical "Parade" as much as we do. You may also be here because you want to learn more about the show. Here you will find just about anything and everything that has to do with this powerful piece of theatre, so be sure to check out our many sections including pages dedicated to each of the official productions that we've seen from 1998 to 2015. DISCLAIMER: We do not own any of the material on this site, nor do we claim to hold the rights to this musical at all. All rights belong to the original writers, producers and creators. Crediting all sources, including photographer and original websites/owners are important to us. If any of the material on this site needs to be removed, please send an email to [email protected] and we will immediately remove it. This website is dedicated to the longtime and short-time fans of "Parade". We'd also like to dedicate this page, and the Broadway production page, especially, to the memory of Brent Carver, the original Leo.
WHAT IS "PARADE"?
Parade opened on Broadway at The Vivian Beaumont Theatre on December 17, 1998 to mixed reviews, closing after only 39 previews and 84 performances. Despite the lukewarm press, the musical won the 1999 Tony Awards for both Best Book (Alfred Uhry) and Best Original Score (Jason Robert Brown).
In 2007, a reworked version of the show opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London. This production significantly downsized the company from 51 actors and musicians to 24, in addition to cutting some songs and adding at least one new number (“The Glory”, "Hammer of Justice"). The new version was then produced at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Parade has enjoyed a US national tour, and continues to receive several regional and amateur productions every year.
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry
Co-conceived and Originally Directed by Hal Prince
In 2007, a reworked version of the show opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London. This production significantly downsized the company from 51 actors and musicians to 24, in addition to cutting some songs and adding at least one new number (“The Glory”, "Hammer of Justice"). The new version was then produced at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Parade has enjoyed a US national tour, and continues to receive several regional and amateur productions every year.
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry
Co-conceived and Originally Directed by Hal Prince
PERFORM PARADE:
Parade is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
http://www.mtishows.com/parade
Parade is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
http://www.mtishows.com/parade
SYNOPSIS
Parade tells the heart-wrenching, true story of Leo Frank: a Brooklyn-raised Jewish man living in Atlanta who was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of his thirteen-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in 1913. Because Frank’s trial was replete with faulty testimony and lacked any clear evidence, his wife, Lucille, convinced Georgia’s governor to eventually commute his sentence from death to life imprisonment. Despite this ruling, a lynch mob hanged Frank in Mary Phagan’s hometown of Marietta, Georgia.
The momentous case drew national attention to Anti-Semitism, and was pivotal to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as well as the reviving of the Ku Klux Klan in the South. With a characteristically rich, intricate, and wide-ranging score penned by Jason Robert Brown, and a bold willingness to dive into the complexities of early 20th century social relationships in the South, Parade is a sophisticated, dark tale with endless depths for a highly skilled company of actors and musicians to plumb. |
STRIKING,
MOVING,
FANTASTIC
-Time Out New York
(© Joan Marcus)