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Carolee Carmello as Lucille Frank sings Pretty Music
in the Tony Award-winning (Best Musical Score, Best Musical Book)
Parade, which closed on Broadway last year. But, this month you
can catch it at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington, where
it runs till October 14, then back east at Playhouse Square in Cleveland,
Ohio from October 17-24. Telling the tale of one of Americas
greatest instances of anti-Semitism, Parade dramatizes and puts
to music the trial and lynching of Jewish factory owner Leo Frank,
falsely accused and convicted of brutally murdering one of his young
workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. In 1913, Frank was sentenced to
death, but the Georgia governor commuted his sentence to life in
prison two years later. Soon after, a mob known as the Knights Of
Mary Phagan broke into his cell, threw him in a truck and hanged
him from a tree in Georgias rural backwoods. With music and
lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Alfred Uhry, Parade was
directed by Harold Prince. Production credits include sets by Riccardo
Hernandez, costumes by Judith Dolan, lights by Howell Binkley, sound
by Duncan Edwards and choreography by Patricia Birch.
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