There’s a moment near the end of Parade when Leo Frank sings the Shema. Surrounded by a mob intent on killing him, he quivers in a nightshirt, a sack tied around his waist for modesty, a noose around ...
In early 20th-century Atlanta, a young Southern Jew named Leo Frank was tried and convicted for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan. In late 20th-century Atlanta, a young Southern Jew named Alfred ...
Max Chernin fell in love with the music from “Parade” before he knew the heartbreaking story behind the songs. “(Character) Leo (Frank’s) first act big song, ‘It’s Hard to Speak My Heart,’ was ...
The musical, which originally premiered in 1998, is a dramatization of the 1913 trial of Jewish American Leo Frank who was accused and convicted of murdering a 13-year-old girl Kelsie Gibson is the ...