Manhattan Concert Productions presents Parade

Avery Fisher Hall

The TONY Award-winning score from Parade will be brought to life for one night only at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center on February 16, 2015. Three-time TONY Award winner and original composer, Jason Robert Brown will conduct a star-studded cast and full chorus, joined by Olivier Award nominee Gary Griffin as director, and Tom Murray as music supervisor.

LAURA BENANTI, as Lucille Frank

KATIE ROSE CLARKE, as Mrs. Phagan

JOHN ELLISON CONLEE, as Hugh Dorsey

CHARLIE FRANKLIN, as Young Soldier / Frankie Epps

DAVIS GAINES, as Old Soldier / Judge Roan

JOSHUA HENRY, as Jim Conley

CAITLIN HOULAHAN, as Iola Stover

ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA, as Minnie McKnight / Angela / Nina Formby

JEREMY JORDAN, as Leo Frank

RAMIN KARIMLOO, as Tom Watson

ANDY MIENTUS, as Britt Craig

NATHANIEL STAMPLEY, as Newt Lee/Riley

EMERSON STEELE, as Mary Phagan

JASON ROBERT BROWN, Conductor

GARY GRIFFIN, Director

Creative Team includes: Tom Murray, Music Supervisor; Beowulf Boritt, Set Designer; Jeff Croiter, Lighting Designer; Jon Weston, Sound Designer; Beowulf Boritt & Caite Hevner Kemp, Projection Design; Telsey + Company / Craig Burns, CSA, Casting; Kristen Harris, Production Stage Manager; Joe DeLuise / Juniper Street Productions, Production Manager; Josh Millican, Assistant Sound Designer.

Further cast and creative team announcements to follow.

Following the success of Titanic earlier this year, and Ragtime in 2013, Manhattan Concert Productions will bring the Drama Desk and TONY Award-winning score of Parade back to Lincoln Center, where it all began in 1998. This concert performance of Parade will feature a chorus of over 200 singers from the across the United States; the enlarged forces of the New York City Chamber Orchestra; and a full professional Broadway cast.

With a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Alfred Uhry, a score by Jason Robert Brown, and co-conceived by Tony Award winner Harold Prince, Parade tells a controversial story of the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was accused and convicted of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, GA. Parade was Brown’s first Broadway production. Of his score, Variety wrote [it] “draws on a variety of influences, from pop-rock to folk to rhythm and blues and gospel.”

Parade, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theater in 1998, The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was accused and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused antisemitic tensions in Atlanta and the U.S. state of Georgia. When Frank’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison by the departing Governor of Georgia, John M. Slaton due to his detailed review of over 10,000 pages of testimony and possible problems with the trial, Leo Frank was transferred to a prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, where a lynching party seized and kidnapped him. Frank was taken to Phagan’s hometown of Marietta, Georgia, and he was hanged from an oak tree. The events surrounding the investigation and trial led to two groups emerging: the revival of the defunct KKK and the birth of the Jewish Civil Rights organization, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

 

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