PARADE

Parade tells the heart-wrenching, true story of Leo Frank: a Brooklyn-raised Jewish man living in Atlanta who was convicted of the rape and murder of his thirteen-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in 1913. Because Frank’s trial was replete with faulty testimony and lacked any clear evidence, Georgia’s governor eventually commuted his sentence from death to life imprisonment. Despite this ruling, a lynch mob hanged Frank in Mary Phagan’s hometown of Marietta, Georgia. The momentous case drew national attention to Anti-Semitism, and was pivotal to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as well as the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the South. Parade sits at the crux of north/south, black/white, rich/poor, Jew/gentile polarities, against the evolving backdrop of the Civil (rights) War.

producing company/venue | University of California, Irvine at the Irvine Barclay Theatre

music and lyrics | Jason Robert Brown

book | Alfred Uhry

direction | Myrona Delaney

scenic | Leah Ramillano

costume | Leon Wiebers

lighting | Wesley Charles Chew

sound | Matt Glenn and Mark Caspary

stage management | Liv Scott

photography | Paul Kennedy