Based on true events, Parade explores how love and hope miraculously survive when pushed to the brink by religious bigotry and political corruption.

Leo and Lucille Frank are a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913. When Leo is accused of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion.

Parade dramatizes the real-life story of Leo Frank, whose conviction and lynching became one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in America. Frank was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl who worked at the factory he managed, the National Pencil Company. Frank’s trial was a spectacle of conflicting eyewitness accounts, false testimony, and sensationalized press coverage. In 1986, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles pardoned Frank,  though the declaration was made “without attempting to address the question of guilt or innocence.”

In the mid-1990s, Broadway director/producer Harold Prince commissioned composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown and playwright Alfred Uhry to write what he called an “American opera” based on the story of Leo Frank.

Bookwriter Alfred Uhry has said about the inspiration for Parade: "Southern extended families are prone to telling stories and so are Jewish ones. Mine was both, so I got a double dose. I grew up hearing about the quirks of distant relatives, in-laws, and a whole network of people I didn't know. They all came with stories attached. But nobody mentioned Leo Frank. Some of the family even walked out of the room if the name came up. I found this confusing, because I knew that my Great Uncle Sig had been his employer, and Lucille Frank was my grandmother's friend. Due to this hush-hush policy, I developed a fascination for the case, which has lasted all these years and which led to the idea for Parade."

Parade opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City on December 17, 1998. The production was nominated for nine Tony Awards and won two (for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Musical Score). The production played for 85 regular performances before closing on February 28, 1999. In 2022, Parade played for seven performances at New York City Center as part of the organization’s annual gala for its Encore! series. With Ben Platt in the role of Leo Frank, the show then transferred to Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, where it opened after 21 previews on March 16, 2023. Nominated for six Tony Awards, the revival won two (one for Best Revival of a Musical and one for Best Direction of a Musical). The production played for 169 regular performances before closing on August 6, 2023. 

ALFRED UHRY (Book) has the distinguishing honor of being the only American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. A graduate of Brown University, Uhry left his native Atlanta for the bright lights of New York City as a newlywed in 1959 to become a lyricist. Struggling to make ends meet for almost twenty years, he hit success in 1976 with The Robber Bridegroom, a bawdy Southern fairy tale based on a Eudora Welty story for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical. (The Tony went to the writers of A Chorus Line.) Ten years later he wrote his first play, the smash hit, Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy. He would later win an Oscar for the movie adaptation starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. Soon after, the Olympic Games' Cultural Olympiad commissioned Uhry to write a play for the summer 1996 Olympics in his hometown of Atlanta. Thus the Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo was born. Known for writing charming, engaging yet somewhat quirky Southern characters, Mr. Uhry's latest endeavor, Parade is a darker look at the nuances and history of the South. This chilling true-life story of the lynching of Leo Frank won a Tony Award for Mr. Uhry as Best Book of a Musical in 1999.

JASON ROBERT BROWN (Music, Lyrics, Orchestrations and Arrangements) has written some of the most highly acclaimed scores for the stage in the last three decades, including Songs for a New World, Parade (1999 Tony for Best Score, 2023 Tony for Best Revival), The Last Five Years (also a feature film), The Bridges of Madison County (Tonys for Best Score and Orchestration), Honeymoon In Vegas, 13 (also a Netflix film), Mr. Saturday Night (with lyrics by Amanda Green), The Connector, and Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil. Upcoming: Less, written with Doug Wright and adapted from the novel by Andrew Sean Greer. As a solo artist, Jason has performed around the world — including his debut at Carnegie Hall in Autumn 2024 — and released several albums of his songs. His most recent release, Jason Robert Brown & Stephen Sondheim Live in Concert (on Concord Theatricals Recordings), documents a 2019 all-star performance at New York's Town Hall. Jason lives in Nyack, New York, with his wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their two daughters.

In Order of Appearance 

Ashton Hinton
Young Soldier; Ensemble; Britt Craig u/s

Rick Cordaro
Old Soldier

Gia Maglione
Lucille Frank

Tony Heffner
Leo Frank

Jerald Lynn Beard
Minola McKnight

Rob Albrecht
Gov. John Slaton

Anthony  Nuñez
Frankie Epps

Ella Embry
Mary Phagan

Mira Cahalane
Iola Stover

Dane Lee
Detective J.N. Starnes/Hugh Dorsey u/s

Gus Korogi
Officer Ivey/Frankie US

Kevin Gibaldi
Newt Lee; Ensemble

Emily Schrader
Mrs. Phagan

Halle Shadrake
Lizzie Phagan/Mrs. Phagan u/s

Colin Cook
Britt Craig

Daniel Lozinak
Floyd MacDaniel; Ensemble; Tom Watson u/s

Jordan Potter
Hugh Dorsey

Liam Eitman
Prison Guard; Ensemble; Det. Starnes u/s

Mia Renard
Monteen

Maddie Cugini
Essie

Keon Dalziel
Tom Watson

Brooke Robinson
Sally Slaton; Ensemble

DeAndre Hairston-Karim
Riley

Geriece Drone
Angela; Ensemble

Gregory Hofmeister
Luther Rosser; Ensemble; Leo Frank u/s

Anthony Woods-Mitchell
Jim Conley

Roland Moore
Judge Roan

Sadiah Slay Larkin
Nurse; Ensemble; Angela u/s

Spencer Morgan
Mr. Peavy

Alden Brinkley
Ensemble; Officer Ivey u/s

Catherine Chambers
Ensemble; Iola Stover u/s/Dance Captain

Elijah Chase
Ensemble; Riley u/s

Jack Clymire
Ensemble

Fiona Cook
Ensemble

Gigi Guyot
Ensemble

Juliet Hooks
Ensemble

Elena Klingler
Ensemble

Charli McConnell
Ensemble

Bekah Neubecker
Ensemble

Rachel Osherow
Ensemble

Peyton Richardson
Ensemble; Monteen u/s, Essie u/s

Mia Smalley
Ensemble; Mary Phagan u/s

Lois Wilhelm
Ensemble; Lucille Frank u/s

Act 1

The Old Red Hills of Home: Part 1 

The Old Red Hills of Home: Part 2

I Dream of Atlanta/How Can I Call This Home How Can I Call This Home?

The Picture Show

Leo At Work / What Am I Waiting For? 

Interrogation: I Am Trying to Remember...

Funeral: There is a Fountain / It Don’t Make Sense 

Watson’s Lullaby

Somethin’ Ain’t Right 

Real Big News

You Don’t Know This Man 

Trial Part 1

Trial Part II: Dorsey’s Statement: Twenty Miles From Marietta 

Trial Part III: Frankie’s Testimony

Trial Part IV: Factory Girls / Come Up to My Office 

Trial Part V: Minola McKnight's Testimony Trial 

Part VI: My Child Will Forgive Me

Trial Part VII: That’s What He Said

Trial Part VIII: Leo’s Statement: It’s Hard to Speak My Heart 

Trial Part IX: Closing Statement and Verdict

Act 2

Rumblin’ and a Rollin’ 

Do It Alone 

Pretty Music

Glory

This Is Not Over Yet 

The Factory Girls (Reprise) 

Minnie McKnight (Reprise)

Blues: Feel the Rain Fall/Chain Gang Guard

Where Will You Stand When the Flood Comes?

All the Wasted Time 

Sh’ma 

Finale

Steven A. Miller
Conductor/Keyboards

Monica Bacus
Violin

David Ciucevich
Woodwinds

Toussaint English
Bass

Dylan Gomez
Percussionist 

Set Construction Crew
Elijah Chase 
Dale Gilbert
Micah Harvey
Kathy Kohl
Dave Moledor 
Richard Morris, Jr.

Light Hang and Focus Crew
Micah Harvey
Fiona Cook 

Spotlight Operators
Ken Hardman
Abby Hetman
Stephen Kraus
Layne Weaklaned

Light Board Operators
Ken Hardman
Alyssa Miller
Robin Ungerleider

Sound Board 
Kevin Lambes

Costume Construction Crew 
Beth Desberg
Wynne Gavin
Millie Keyser
Sabrina Kim
Lindy Lincicome
Pat McRowe
Jasen J. Smith

Costume Inventory
Jenny Banker
Pam Groom
Melanie Hauer
Jasen J. Smith

Costume Inventory Crew
Jenny Banker
Pamela Groom
Melanie Hauer
Jasen J. Smith

Dressers
Makenna Bird
Laura Niehaus
Hattie Ruleman
Jasen J. Smith

Backstage
Andrew Allen
Jeannie Clarkson
Doug Fidler
Ken Hardman
Alyssa Miller
Sara Vollman

Front-of-House
Jennifer Banker
Eleanor Campbell
Jeannie Clarkson
Carla Cuigini
Jules Ebert
Doug Fidler
Patti Gabb
Tim Gabb
Pamela Groom
Marcia Korane
Kate Lombardo
Belinda Meadows
Nancy Shorts

Wardrobe Crew
Makenna Bird