Before The Parade Passes By…Catch It On Tour!
Issue: October 2000

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 America’s 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 Georgia’s 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.