Parade

by Alison Lawrence | Apr 3, 2023

Jason Robert Brown and Albert Uhry’s telling of the True Story of Leo Frank

Amid religious intolerance, political injustice and racial tension, the stirring Tony Award-winning Parade explores the endurance of love and hope against all the odds. With a book by acclaimed playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) and a rousing, colorful and haunting score by Jason Robert Brown (Songs For a New World, The Last Five Years, Bridges of Madison County), Parade is a moving examination of the darkest corners of America’s history.

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor’s false testimony seal Leo’s fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion.

Daring, innovative and bold, Parade is filled with soaring music and a heart-wrenching story, offering a moral lesson about the dangers of prejudice and ignorance that should not be forgotten.

• Show: current/future_show
• Society Name: 40393
• Venue Name: Rhoda McGaw Theatre
• Opening date: 14/09/2023
• Venue Postcode: GU222SY
• Closing date: 16/09/2023
• Region: South East
• Credits ( author / playwright ): Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry
• Website: https://www.simplytheatre.net/
• Tickets cost per person (£): 18
• Box Office phone number: 01483613217