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| Parade | |
|---|---|
 Broadway Playbill cover | |
| Music | Jason Robert Brown |
| Lyrics | Jason Robert Brown |
| Volume | Alfred Uhry |
| Footing | Historical events in Atlanta in 1913 |
| Productions | 1998 Broadway 2000 Usa Tour 2007 West Stop |
| Awards | Tony Award for Best Score Tony Award for All-time Book |
Parade is a musical with a volume by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics past Jason Robert Brown. The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia.
The musical premiered on Broadway in December 1998 and won Tony Awards for All-time Book and Best Original Score (out of nine nominations) and six Drama Desk Awards. Later endmost on Broadway in February 1999, the show has had a United states national tour and a few professional productions in the United states and Britain.
Background and genesis [edit]
The kickoff day of the trial. Spectators were racially segregated. The stenographer can exist seen next to Newt Lee, who is being questioned by prosecutor Hugh Dorsey.
The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was accused and bedevilled of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, sensationalized past the media, aroused antisemitic tensions in Atlanta and the U.South. state of Georgia. When Frank'southward death penalty was commuted to life in prison past the departing Governor of Georgia, John M. Slaton, in 1915 due to his detailed review of over 10,000 pages of testimony and possible bug 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).[one]
Director Harold Prince turned to Jason Robert Brownish to write the score later Stephen Sondheim turned the projection down. Prince's daughter, Daisy, had brought Brown to her father'south attention. Book writer Alfred Uhry, who grew up in Atlanta, had personal noesis of the Frank story, equally his great-uncle owned the pencil factory run by Leo Frank.[2]
The musical'south story concludes that the likely killer was the factory janitor Jim Conley, the key witness confronting Frank at the trial. The villains of the piece are the aggressive and corrupt prosecutor Hugh Dorsey (later the governor of Georgia and and so a guess) and the rabid, anti-semitic publisher Tom Watson (later elected a U.S. senator). Prince and Uhry emphasized the evolving relationship between Frank and his wife Lucille.[3] Their human relationship shifts from cold to warm in songs similar "Leo at Work/What am I Waiting For?," "You Don't Know This Man," "Practise it Solitary," and "All the Wasted Time". The poignancy of the couple, who fall in dearest in the midst of adversity, is the core of the piece of work. It makes the tragic outcome – the miscarriage of justice – even more agonizing.[4]
The show was Dark-brown's start Broadway product. His music, according to critic Charles Isherwood, has "subtle and highly-seasoned melodies that describe on a variety of influences, from popular-rock to folk to rhythm and dejection and gospel."[3]
Plot [edit]
Human action I [edit]
The musical opens in Marietta, Georgia, in the time of the American Civil War. The sounds of drums herald the appearance of a young Confederate soldier, behest farewell to his sweetheart as he goes to fight for his homeland. The years pass and suddenly it is 1913. The immature soldier has become an old 1-legged veteran who is preparing to march in the almanac Confederate Memorial Day parade ("The Old Red Hills of Abode"). As the Parade begins ("The Dream of Atlanta"), Leo Frank, a Yankee Jew from Brooklyn, NYC, is securely uncomfortable in the town in which he works and lives, feeling out of place due to his Judaism and his college education ("How Can I Call This Home?"). His discomfort is present even in his relationship with his wife, Lucille, who has planned an outdoor meal spoiled past Leo's determination to go into work on a holiday. Meanwhile, 2 local teens, Frankie Epps and Mary Phagan, ride a trolley car and flirt. Frankie wants Mary to get to the moving-picture show with him, only Mary playfully resists, insisting her mother will not let her ("The Picture Show"). Mary leaves to collect her pay from the pencil mill managed by Leo.
While Leo is at work, Lucille bemoans the state of their marriage, believing herself unappreciated by a man so wrapped up in himself. She reflects on her unfulfilled life and wonders whether or non Leo was the correct friction match for her ("Leo at Work" / "What Am I Waiting For?"). Mary Phagan arrives in Leo's part to collect her paycheck. That dark, police Detective Starnes and Officer Ivey rouse Leo from his sleep, and without telling him why, need he accompany them to the manufactory, where Mary's torso has been found raped and murdered in the basement. The Police immediately suspect Newt Lee, the African-American nighttime watchman who discovered the body ("Interrogation"). Throughout his interrogation, he maintains his innocence, but inadvertently directs Starnes' suspicion upon Leo, who did not answer his telephone when Lee called him to study the incident. Leo is arrested, but not charged, and Mrs. Phagan, Mary'southward mother, becomes aware of Mary'south decease.
Across town, a reporter named Britt Craig is informed about Mary's murder and sees the possibility of a career-making story ("Large News"). Craig attends Mary's funeral, where the townspeople of Marietta are aroused, mournful, and baffled past the tragedy that has so unexpectedly shattered the customs. ("There is a Fountain" / "It Don't Make Sense"). Frankie Epps swears revenge on Mary's killer, equally does Tom Watson, a author for The Jeffersonian, an extremist right-wing paper ("Tom Watson's Lullaby") who has taken a special interest in the case. In the meantime, Governor John Slaton pressures the local prosecutor Hugh Dorsey to get to the bottom of the whole thing. Dorsey, an ambitious politician with a "lousy conviction record", resolves to find the murderer. Dorsey, forth with Starnes and Ivey interrogate Newt Lee, merely they become no information. Dorsey releases Newt, reasoning that "hanging another Nigra ain't plenty this fourth dimension. Nosotros gotta practice improve." He then attaches the blame to Leo Frank and sends Starnes and a reluctant Ivey out to discover eyewitnesses ("Something Ain't Right"). Craig exalts in his opportunity to cover a "real" story and begins an constructive entrada vilifying Leo. ("Real Big News").
Leo meets with his lawyer, Luther Z. Rosser, who vows to "win this example, and ship him domicile". Meanwhile, Dorsey makes a deal with mill janitor and ex-convict Jim Conley to testify against Leo in exchange for amnesty for a previous escape from prison house. Lucille, hounded by reporters, collapses from the strain and privately rebukes Craig when he attempts to get an interview ("You Don't Know This Man"). She tells her husband that she cannot behave to see his trial, but he begs her to stay in the courtroom, as her non appearing would make him expect guilty.
The trial of Leo Frank begins, presided over by Judge Roan. A hysterical crowd gathers outside the courtroom, equally Tom Watson spews invective ("Hammer of Justice") and Hugh Dorsey begins the case for the prosecution ("Twenty Miles from Marietta"). The prosecution produces a series of witnesses, most of whom give trumped evidence which was conspicuously fed to them by Dorsey. Frankie Epps testifies, falsely, that Mary mentioned that Leo "looks at her funny" when they last spoke, a sentiment echoed verbatim past three of Mary'due south teenage co-workers, Lola, Essie, and Monteen ("The Factory Girls"). In a fantasy sequence, Leo becomes the lecherous seducer of their testimony ("Come Upward to My Office"). Testimony is heard from Mary's mother ("My Kid Will Forgive Me") and Minnie McKnight before the prosecution'southward star witness, Jim Conley, takes the stand, challenge that he witnessed the murder and helped Leo cover up the crime ("That's What He Said"). Leo is desperate. As prosecutor Hugh Dorsey whips the observers and jurors at the trial into a frenzy, Leo is given the opportunity to deliver a statement. Leo offers a heartfelt speech, pleading to exist believed ("Information technology's Hard to Speak My Center"), but it is not enough. He is found guilty and sentenced to hang. The crowd breaks out into a jubilant cakewalk as Lucille and Leo embrace, terrified ("Summation and Cakewalk").
Human action 2 [edit]
It'southward now 1914 and Leo has begun his process of appeal. The trial has been noted by the press in the north, and the reaction is strongly disapproving of the fashion in which it was conducted, but the African-American domestics wonder if the reaction would have been as strong if the victim had been black ("A Rumblin' and a Rollin'"). Lucille tries to assist Leo with his entreatment, but reveals crucial data to Craig, provoking an argument between Leo and Lucille ("Do it Alone"). Lucille and so finds Governor Slaton at a party ("Pretty Music") and attempts to advocate for Leo. She accuses him of either beingness a fool or a coward if he accepts the consequence of the trial every bit is. Meanwhile, Tom Watson approaches Hugh Dorsey and tells him that he will back up his bid for governor should he choose to brand it. Dorsey and Judge Roan go on a angling trip, where they hash out the political climate and the upcoming election ("The Celebrity").
The governor agrees to re-open the instance, and Leo and Lucille rejoice ("This Is Not Over Yet"). Slaton visits the manufacturing plant girls, who admit to their exaggeration ("Manufactory Girls (Reprise)"), and Minnie, who claims that Dorsey intimidated her and made her sign a statement ("Minnie McKnight'southward Reprise"). Slaton as well visits Jim Conley, who is dorsum in jail every bit an accessory to the murder, who refuses to change his story despite the noticeable inconsistencies with the evidence, and along with his Chain Gang, does not requite any data, much to the chagrin of Slaton ("Blues: Feel the Pelting Fall"). A year later, after much consideration, he agrees to commute Leo'south sentence to life in prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, a motion that finer ends his political career. The citizens of Marietta, led by Dorsey and Watson, are enraged and riot ("Where Will You Stand When the Inundation Comes?").
Leo has been transferred to a prison work-subcontract. Lucille visits, and he realizes his deep love for his wife and how much he has underestimated her ("All the Wasted Time"). After Lucille departs from the prison house, a party of masked men (including Starnes, Ivey, Frankie Epps, the Fulton Tower guard and the Old Confederate Soldier) arrives and kidnaps Leo. They take him to Marietta and demand he confess to the murder on pain of expiry. Leo refuses, and although Ivey is convinced of his innocence, the rest of group is determined to kill him. As his concluding request, Leo has a sack tied around his waist, since he is wearing only his nightshirt, and gives his wedding ring to Ivey to be given to Lucille. The group hangs him from an oak tree ("Sh'ma"). In 1916, a remorseful Britt Craig gives Leo's ring, which has been delivered to him anonymously, to Lucille. He is surprised to observe that she has no plans to leave Georgia, which is now governed past Dorsey, but she refuses to permit Leo's ordeal be for zilch. Alone, she gives in to her grief, but she takes comfort in believing that Leo is with God and free from his ordeal. The Confederate Memorial Day Parade begins again ("Finale").
Musical numbers [edit]
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- Notes
- A ^ Cut for the Donmar Warehouse production.
- B ^ Replaced with "Hammer of Justice" in the Donmar Warehouse production.
- C ^ Replaced with "Minnie McKnight's Testimony" in the Donmar Warehouse production.
- D ^ Cut for the 2000 U.Due south. Bout and the Donmar Warehouse production.
- E ^ Replaced with "The Glory" in the Donmar Warehouse production.
- F ^ Replaced with "Minnie McKnight's Reprise" in the Donmar Warehouse product.
Characters and original cast [edit]
| Character | Broadway (1998) | Starting time U.S. National Bout (2000) | Donmar Warehouse (2007) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Frank | Brent Carver | David Pittu | Bertie Carvel |
| Lucille Frank | Carolee Carmello | Andréa Burns | Lara Pulver |
| Frankie Epps | Kirk McDonald | Daniel Frank Kelley | Stuart Matthew Price |
| Young Confederate Soldier | Jeff Edgerton | ||
| Mary Phagan | Christy Carlson Romano | Kristen Bowden | Jayne Wisener |
| Hugh Dorsey | Herndon Lackey | Peter Samuel | Marking Bonnar |
| Governor John Slaton | John Hickok | Rick Hilsabeck | Gary Milner |
| Britt Craig | Evan Pappas | Randy Redd | |
| Mr. Peavy | Don Stephenson | Peter Flynn | Marking Bonnar |
| Luther Rosser | J. B. Adams | David Vosburgh | Stephen Webb |
| Officer Ivey | Tad Ingram | Tim Salamandyk | |
| Prison Baby-sit | Randy Redd | David Coolidge | N/A |
| Jim Conley | Rufus Bonds, Jr. | Keith Byron Kirk | Shaun Escoffery |
| Newt Lee | Ray Aranha | ||
| Riley | J. C. Montgomery | C. Mingo Long | Due north/A |
| Tom Watson | John Leslie Wolfe | Norman Bowman | |
| J. Due north. Starnes | Peter Samuel | Tim Howard | |
| Iola Stover | Brooke Sunny Moriber | Siri Howard | Joanna Kirkland |
| Essie | Emily Klein | Celia Mei Rubin | |
| Monteen | Abbi Hutcherson | Sandra DeNise | Zoe Rainey |
| Angela | Angela Lockett | Carla J. Hargrove | Malinda Parris |
| Guess Roan | Don Chastain | Donald Grody | Steven Folio |
| Old Confederate Soldier | |||
| Mrs. Frances Phagan | Jessica Molaskey | Adinah Alexander | Helen Anker |
| Sally Slaton | Anne Torsiglieri | Elizabeth Brownlee | |
Response [edit]
Virtually critics praised the show, especially the score.[5] However, the public and some critics received the show coolly. A number felt the show took too many liberties in the use of racial slurs. When the evidence airtight, Livent had filed for bankruptcy protection (Chapter eleven). Lincoln Heart was the other producer solely responsible for covering the weekly running costs.[6]
Productions [edit]
The musical premiered on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center on Dec 17, 1998 and closed February 28, 1999, later 39 previews and 84 regular performances. Directed by Harold Prince, it starred Brent Carver equally Leo Frank, Carolee Carmello as Lucille Frank, and Christy Carlson Romano as Mary Phagan. Judith Dolan designed costumes for the production.[seven]
U.Southward. National tour [edit]
A U. Southward. national tour, directed past Prince, started at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta in June 2000, with Jason Robert Brown conducting at some venues.[8] It starred David Pittu as Leo, Andrea Burns as Lucille, Keith Byron Kirk as Jim and Kristen Bowden as Mary.[9] [10]
London [edit]
The first major product in the Uk played at the Donmar Warehouse from September 24 to November 24, 2007.[11] It was directed by Rob Ashford and starred Lara Pulver as Lucille, Bertie Carvel as Leo, Jayne Wisener as Mary and Stuart Matthew Price as Immature Soldier/Frankie.[12] Pulver was nominated for the 2008 Laurence Olivier Laurels for Best Actress in a Musical and Carvel was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical. A double-CD cast recording of this product has been released by First Night Records. The recording includes new cloth written past Brownish for the product and contains all songs and dialogue from the Donmar production. The large Broadway orchestration was reduced by David Cullen and Brown to a nine piece ensemble consisting of two pianos, accordion, percussion, clarinet, horn and strings.[13]
Another off-West End production opened on Baronial 10, 2011 for a 6-week engagement ending September 17, at the Southwark Playhouse'southward Vault Theatre. It was directed by Thom Southerland, with musical staging by Tim Jackson. Alastair Brookshaw played Leo, Laura Pitt-Pulford was Lucille, Simon Bailey was Tom and Mark Inscoe was Hugh.[fourteen]
Los Angeles [edit]
Parade was staged at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Palos Verdes Estates, California, from July 9, 2008. The production was directed past Brady Schwind. The production starred Craig D'Amico as Leo, Emily Olson as Lucille and Alissa Anderegg every bit Mary.[15]
The Donmar production transferred to the Marking Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California, in September 2009, for a run through Nov fifteen, 2009. Pulver reprised her role as Lucille opposite T.R. Knight as Leo. The cast also included Michael Berresse, Christian Hoff, Hayley Podschun, Rose Sezniak and Phoebe Strole.[16]
Avery Fisher Hall concert [edit]
On February 16, 2015, a concert production of Parade was staged at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Middle by Manhattan Concert Productions, directed by Gary Griffin and conducted by composer Jason Robert Brown. Jeremy Jordan and Laura Benanti starred as Leo and Lucille, with Ramin Karimloo as Tom, Joshua Henry every bit Jim, Andy Mientus as Britt, Emerson Steele as Mary, Katie Rose Clarke as Mrs. Phagan, John Ellison Conlee as Hugh, Davis Gaines as Judge Roan/Old Soldier and Alan Campbell as Governor Slaton.[17]
Awards and nominations [edit]
Original Broadway production [edit]
| Twelvemonth | Honor Ceremony | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Tony Award | All-time Musical | Nominated | |
| Best Book of a Musical | Alfred Uhry | Won | ||
| Best Original Score | Jason Robert Brown | Won | ||
| All-time Functioning by a Leading Actor in a Musical | Brent Carver | Nominated | ||
| All-time Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical | Carolee Carmello | Nominated | ||
| Best Management of a Musical | Harold Prince | Nominated | ||
| All-time Choreography | Patricia Birch | Nominated | ||
| All-time Orchestrations | Don Sebesky | Nominated | ||
| Best Scenic Design | Riccardo Hernandez | Nominated | ||
| Drama Desk Honour | Outstanding Musical | Won | ||
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Alfred Uhry | Won | ||
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Brent Carver | Won | ||
| Outstanding Extra in a Musical | Carolee Carmello | Won | ||
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Rufus Bonds, Jr. | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Harold Prince | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Choreography | Patricia Birch | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Don Sebesky | Won | ||
| Outstanding Lyrics | Jason Robert Brown | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Music | Won | |||
| Outstanding Set Design | Riccardo Hernandez | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Lighting Pattern | Howell Binkley | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Sound Design | Jonathan Deans | Nominated | ||
Original London production [edit]
| Year | Honour Anniversary | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best New Musical | Nominated | |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Bertie Carvel | Nominated | ||
| Best Actress in a Musical | Lara Pulver | Nominated | ||
| Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical | Shaun Escoffery | Nominated | ||
| All-time Director | Rob Ashford | Nominated | ||
| Best Theatre Choreographer | Nominated | |||
| Best Sound Pattern | Terry Jardine and Nick Lidster | Nominated | ||
Notes [edit]
- ^ Anti-Defamation League information Archived 2008-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin. "Songwriting Challenge of Celebrated Proportions", The New York Times, December 22, 1998, p. E1
- ^ a b Variety, Legit Reviews, Charles Isherwood, Dec 21, 1998 – January 3, 1999, p. 85
- ^ Christian Scientific discipline Monitor (Boston, MA), "Poignant Parade probes America's middle", Iris Fanger, p. 19, Dec 18, 1998
- ^ Links to numerous reviews
- ^ New York Times, Jesse McKinley, interview with Bernard Gersten, two/iii/99, p. B2
- ^ Mira Felner, Claudia Orenstein (2006). The Earth of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation. Allyn & Bacon. p. 330-331.
- ^ Jones, Kenneth. Playbill News: Parade Will March Into GA, TN, PA, WI, CO, WA in 2000 Tour", Playbill, November 10, 1999 Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Parade Tour, with Pittu and Burns, Begins June 13–18 in Atlanta", Playbill, May 12, 2000
- ^ Jones, Chris. "Reviews. Parade", Variety, August 14, 2000
- ^ "Parade Comes to London Autumn 2007". 22 February 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-22 .
- ^ London casting information OfficialLondonTheatre.com, xx July 2007
- ^ London "Parade" to Release Cast Recording (Playbill, 10/24/07) Archived 2008-01-01 at the Wayback Car
- ^ Bare, Matthew. "Jason Robert Brown's Parade at London's Vault Theatre", August 24, 2011, accessed June 10, 2020
- ^ Farber, Jim. "Controversial musical Parade finally marches into PVE", Los Angeles Daily News, July 9, 2008, accessed August 8, 2020
- ^ BWW News Desk.[one] broadwayworld.com, June 23, 2009
- ^ Hetrick, Adam. "Full Cast Revealed For 'Parade' in Concert Starring Jeremy Jordan and Laura Benanti", Playbill, January 19, 2015
References [edit]
- All-encompassing website near the show
- Cast and other information from the GeoCities Jason Robert Brown website
- All the Wasted Fourth dimension – Parade
- Parade at the Music Theatre International website
- Profile of the show at the NODA website indicating which characters sing which numbers [ dead link ]
External links [edit]
- Parade at the Net Broadway Database
- New York Times review, 12/18/98
- List of numerous productions of Parade between 2001 and 2004
- New York Times review of Los Angeles product, 12/xiv/09
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade_(musical)
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