By: Samuel L. Leiter March 24, 2023: Parade, the topically relevant 1998 musical now being smashingly revived on Broadway, tells the truth-based story of Leo Frank (Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen). Frank was the pencil factory manager--a Jew, transplanted from Brooklyn to Marietta, GA"who, in what is widely viewed as a miscarriage of justice, was tried and convicted in 1913 for having raped and murdered Mary Phagan (E…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AM on March 25, 2023