In 1913, Leo Frank, a Jewish Yankee living in Atlanta, was accused of raping and murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee at the National Pencil Factory where Frank worked as the superintendent. He was jailed for two years, then kidnapped and lynched in 1915. So yeah, let's make a musical out of that, right? In 1998, Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown did, and transformed these real-life serie…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:15PM on September 8, 2013