You Dont Know This Man From Parade
| Parade | |
|---|---|
 Broadway Playbill comprehend | |
| Music | Jason Robert Brown |
| Lyrics | Jason Robert Dark-brown |
| Book | Alfred Uhry |
| Basis | Historical events in Atlanta in 1913 |
| Productions | 1998 Broadway 2000 US Bout 2007 West Finish |
| Awards | Tony Award for Best Score Tony Honor for Best Book |
Parade is a musical with a volume by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia.
The musical premiered on Broadway in Dec 1998 and won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score (out of nine nominations) and half-dozen Drama Desk-bound Awards. Afterwards closing on Broadway in February 1999, the show has had a US national tour and a few professional productions in the US and Great britain.
Background and genesis [edit]
The first twenty-four hours of the trial. Spectators were racially segregated. The stenographer can exist seen side by side to Newt Lee, who is being questioned by prosecutor Hugh Dorsey.
The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish manufacturing plant manager Leo Frank, who was accused and bedevilled of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused antisemitic tensions in Atlanta and the U.S. state of Georgia. When Frank's decease sentence was commuted to life in prison by the departing Governor of Georgia, John M. Slaton, in 1915 due to his detailed review of over 10,000 pages of testimony and possible issues with the trial, Leo Frank was transferred to a prison house in Milledgeville, Georgia, where a lynching political party seized and kidnapped him. Frank was taken to Phagan's hometown of Marietta, Georgia, and he was hanged from an oak tree. The events surrounding the investigation and trial led to 2 groups emerging: the revival of the defunct KKK and the birth of the Jewish Civil Rights organization, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).[1]
Director Harold Prince turned to Jason Robert Dark-brown to write the score after Stephen Sondheim turned the project down. Prince'south daughter, Daisy, had brought Chocolate-brown to her father's attention. Book writer Alfred Uhry, who grew upward in Atlanta, had personal cognition of the Frank story, every bit his smashing-uncle owned the pencil factory run past Leo Frank.[2]
The musical's story concludes that the likely killer was the factory janitor Jim Conley, the key witness against Frank at the trial. The villains of the slice are the ambitious and corrupt prosecutor Hugh Dorsey (later the governor of Georgia and then a guess) and the rabid, anti-semitic publisher Tom Watson (afterward elected a U.S. senator). Prince and Uhry emphasized the evolving human relationship between Frank and his wife Lucille.[3] Their human relationship shifts from cold to warm in songs similar "Leo at Piece of work/What am I Waiting For?," "You Don't Know This Man," "Practise information technology Lonely," and "All the Wasted Time". The poignancy of the couple, who fall in love in the midst of adversity, is the core of the work. It makes the tragic upshot – the miscarriage of justice – fifty-fifty more disturbing.[4]
The show was Brownish's first Broadway production. His music, co-ordinate to critic Charles Isherwood, has "subtle and highly-seasoned melodies that draw on a variety of influences, from pop-rock to folk to rhythm and dejection and gospel."[3]
Plot [edit]
Deed I [edit]
The musical opens in Marietta, Georgia, in the time of the American Civil War. The sounds of drums herald the appearance of a young Confederate soldier, bidding farewell to his sweetheart equally he goes to fight for his homeland. The years pass and of a sudden information technology is 1913. The young soldier has become an former one-legged veteran who is preparing to march in the almanac Confederate Memorial Day parade ("The Old Crimson Hills of Dwelling"). Every bit the Parade begins ("The Dream of Atlanta"), Leo Frank, a Yankee Jew from Brooklyn, NYC, is deeply uncomfortable in the town in which he works and lives, feeling out of place due to his Judaism and his college teaching ("How Can I Call This Abode?"). His discomfort is present fifty-fifty in his relationship with his wife, Lucille, who has planned an outdoor meal spoiled by Leo's determination to become into work on a vacation. Meanwhile, ii local teens, Frankie Epps and Mary Phagan, ride a trolley automobile and flirt. Frankie wants Mary to go to the pic show with him, but Mary playfully resists, insisting her female parent will not permit her ("The Picture Testify"). Mary leaves to collect her pay from the pencil mill managed by Leo.
While Leo is at work, Lucille bemoans the state of their marriage, believing herself unappreciated by a man then wrapped up in himself. She reflects on her unfulfilled life and wonders whether or not Leo was the right friction match for her ("Leo at Work" / "What Am I Waiting For?"). Mary Phagan arrives in Leo'due south office to collect her paycheck. That night, police Detective Starnes and Officer Ivey rouse Leo from his sleep, and without telling him why, need he accompany them to the mill, where Mary's body has been establish raped and murdered in the basement. The Police force immediately suspect Newt Lee, the African-American nighttime watchman who discovered the trunk ("Interrogation"). Throughout his interrogation, he maintains his innocence, but inadvertently directs Starnes' suspicion upon Leo, who did non answer his phone when Lee chosen him to written report the incident. Leo is arrested, just not charged, and Mrs. Phagan, Mary'south mother, becomes aware of Mary'southward death.
Across town, a reporter named Britt Craig is informed most Mary's murder and sees the possibility of a career-making story ("Big News"). Craig attends Mary's funeral, where the townspeople of Marietta are angry, mournful, and baffled by the tragedy that has and then unexpectedly shattered the community. ("There is a Fountain" / "It Don't Make Sense"). Frankie Epps swears revenge on Mary's killer, as does Tom Watson, a writer for The Jeffersonian, an extremist right-wing newspaper ("Tom Watson'southward Lullaby") who has taken a special interest in the case. In the meantime, Governor John Slaton pressures the local prosecutor Hugh Dorsey to get to the bottom of the whole affair. Dorsey, an ambitious pol with a "lousy conviction record", resolves to find the murderer. Dorsey, along with Starnes and Ivey interrogate Newt Lee, but they become no information. Dorsey releases Newt, reasoning that "hanging some other Nigra ain't plenty this fourth dimension. We gotta do better." He then attaches the blame to Leo Frank and sends Starnes and a reluctant Ivey out to detect eyewitnesses ("Something Ain't Correct"). Craig exalts in his opportunity to embrace a "real" story and begins an effective campaign vilifying Leo. ("Real Large News").
Leo meets with his lawyer, Luther Z. Rosser, who vows to "win this example, and send him home". Meanwhile, Dorsey makes a deal with factory janitor and ex-convict Jim Conley to prove against Leo in exchange for immunity for a previous escape from prison house. Lucille, hounded by reporters, collapses from the strain and privately rebukes Craig when he attempts to get an interview ("Yous Don't Know This Human being"). She tells her husband that she cannot bear to run into his trial, but he begs her to stay in the courtroom, as her not appearing would make him look guilty.
The trial of Leo Frank begins, presided over by Judge Roan. A hysterical oversupply gathers outside the courtroom, as Tom Watson spews invective ("Hammer of Justice") and Hugh Dorsey begins the instance for the prosecution ("Twenty Miles from Marietta"). The prosecution produces a series of witnesses, almost of whom give trumped evidence which was clearly fed to them by Dorsey. Frankie Epps testifies, falsely, that Mary mentioned that Leo "looks at her funny" when they concluding spoke, a sentiment echoed verbatim by three of Mary's teenage co-workers, Lola, Essie, and Monteen ("The Factory Girls"). In a fantasy sequence, Leo becomes the carnal seducer of their testimony ("Come up Upwardly to My Office"). Testimony is heard from Mary's mother ("My Child Volition Forgive Me") and Minnie McKnight before the prosecution'southward star witness, Jim Conley, takes the stand, claiming that he witnessed the murder and helped Leo cover up the crime ("That's What He Said"). Leo is drastic. As prosecutor Hugh Dorsey whips the observers and jurors at the trial into a frenzy, Leo is given the opportunity to deliver a statement. Leo offers a heartfelt speech communication, pleading to be believed ("Information technology'due south Difficult to Speak My Centre"), but information technology is not enough. He is found guilty and sentenced to hang. The crowd breaks out into a celebrating breeze as Lucille and Leo embrace, terrified ("Summation and Cakewalk").
Act II [edit]
It's now 1914 and Leo has begun his process of entreatment. The trial has been noted by the press in the north, and the reaction is strongly disapproving of the way in which information technology was conducted, only the African-American domestics wonder if the reaction would have been equally strong if the victim had been black ("A Rumblin' and a Rollin'"). Lucille tries to help Leo with his appeal, only reveals crucial information to Craig, provoking an argument betwixt Leo and Lucille ("Exercise it Alone"). Lucille then finds Governor Slaton at a party ("Pretty Music") and attempts to advocate for Leo. She accuses him of either being a fool or a coward if he accepts the outcome of the trial as is. Meanwhile, Tom Watson approaches Hugh Dorsey and tells him that he will support his bid for governor should he choose to make it. Dorsey and Gauge Roan continue a fishing trip, where they discuss the political climate and the upcoming ballot ("The Glory").
The governor agrees to re-open the case, and Leo and Lucille rejoice ("This Is Not Over Yet"). Slaton visits the manufactory girls, who admit to their exaggeration ("Factory Girls (Reprise)"), and Minnie, who claims that Dorsey intimidated her and made her sign a argument ("Minnie McKnight's Reprise"). Slaton also visits Jim Conley, who is back in jail as an accompaniment to the murder, who refuses to change his story despite the noticeable inconsistencies with the evidence, and along with his Chain Gang, does not give any information, much to the chagrin of Slaton ("Blues: Feel the Rain Fall"). A twelvemonth afterward, after much consideration, he agrees to commute Leo's sentence to life in prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, a move that effectively ends his political career. The citizens of Marietta, led by Dorsey and Watson, are enraged and riot ("Where Will You Stand When the Inundation Comes?").
Leo has been transferred to a prison house work-farm. Lucille visits, and he realizes his deep love for his wife and how much he has underestimated her ("All the Wasted Time"). Later on Lucille departs from the prison, a party of masked men (including Starnes, Ivey, Frankie Epps, the Fulton Tower baby-sit and the Old Confederate Soldier) arrives and kidnaps Leo. They take him to Marietta and need he confess to the murder on pain of death. Leo refuses, and although Ivey is convinced of his innocence, the residue of group is determined to kill him. Equally his last request, Leo has a sack tied around his waist, since he is wearing only his nightshirt, and gives his wedding ceremony ring to Ivey to be given to Lucille. The group hangs him from an oak tree ("Sh'ma"). In 1916, a remorseful Britt Craig gives Leo'due south band, which has been delivered to him anonymously, to Lucille. He is surprised to discover that she has no plans to go out Georgia, which is now governed past Dorsey, merely she refuses to let Leo's ordeal exist for zippo. Lonely, she gives in to her grief, simply she takes comfort in believing that Leo is with God and free from his ordeal. The Confederate Memorial Day Parade begins again ("Finale").
Musical numbers [edit]
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- Notes
- A ^ Cutting for the Donmar Warehouse production.
- B ^ Replaced with "Hammer of Justice" in the Donmar Warehouse production.
- C ^ Replaced with "Minnie McKnight's Testimony" in the Donmar Warehouse production.
- D ^ Cut for the 2000 U.S. Bout and the Donmar Warehouse production.
- E ^ Replaced with "The Glory" in the Donmar Warehouse production.
- F ^ Replaced with "Minnie McKnight's Reprise" in the Donmar Warehouse production.
Characters and original cast [edit]
| Character | Broadway (1998) | First U.South. National Tour (2000) | Donmar Warehouse (2007) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Frank | Brent Carver | David Pittu | Bertie Carvel |
| Lucille Frank | Carolee Carmello | Andréa Burns | Lara Pulver |
| Frankie Epps | Kirk McDonald | Daniel Frank Kelley | Stuart Matthew Price |
| Young Amalgamated Soldier | Jeff Edgerton | ||
| Mary Phagan | Christy Carlson Romano | Kristen Bowden | Jayne Wisener |
| Hugh Dorsey | Herndon Lackey | Peter Samuel | Mark Bonnar |
| Governor John Slaton | John Hickok | Rick Hilsabeck | Gary Milner |
| Britt Craig | Evan Pappas | Randy Redd | |
| Mr. Peavy | Don Stephenson | Peter Flynn | Mark Bonnar |
| Luther Rosser | J. B. Adams | David Vosburgh | Stephen Webb |
| Officer Ivey | Tad Ingram | Tim Salamandyk | |
| Prison Guard | Randy Redd | David Coolidge | N/A |
| Jim Conley | Rufus Bonds, Jr. | Keith Byron Kirk | Shaun Escoffery |
| Newt Lee | Ray Aranha | ||
| Riley | J. C. Montgomery | C. Mingo Long | North/A |
| Tom Watson | John Leslie Wolfe | Norman Bowman | |
| J. N. Starnes | Peter Samuel | Tim Howard | |
| Iola Stover | Brooke Sunny Moriber | Siri Howard | Joanna Kirkland |
| Essie | Emily Klein | Celia Mei Rubin | |
| Monteen | Abbi Hutcherson | Sandra DeNise | Zoe Rainey |
| Angela | Angela Lockett | Carla J. Hargrove | Malinda Parris |
| Guess Roan | Don Chastain | Donald Grody | Steven Page |
| Old Confederate Soldier | |||
| Mrs. Frances Phagan | Jessica Molaskey | Adinah Alexander | Helen Anker |
| Sally Slaton | Anne Torsiglieri | Elizabeth Brownlee | |
Response [edit]
Near critics praised the prove, especially the score.[5] Withal, the public and some critics received the prove coolly. A number felt the bear witness took too many liberties in the apply of racial slurs. When the bear witness closed, Livent had filed for bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11). Lincoln Center was the other producer solely responsible for roofing the weekly running costs.[6]
Productions [edit]
The musical premiered on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center on December 17, 1998 and closed Feb 28, 1999, later on 39 previews and 84 regular performances. Directed past Harold Prince, information technology starred Brent Carver as Leo Frank, Carolee Carmello as Lucille Frank, and Christy Carlson Romano equally Mary Phagan. Judith Dolan designed costumes for the production.[seven]
U.S. National bout [edit]
A U. S. national tour, directed by Prince, started at the Flim-flam Theatre in Atlanta in June 2000, with Jason Robert Brown conducting at some venues.[8] It starred David Pittu equally Leo, Andrea Burns as Lucille, Keith Byron Kirk every bit Jim and Kristen Bowden as Mary.[9] [ten]
London [edit]
The starting time major product in the Great britain played at the Donmar Warehouse from September 24 to Nov 24, 2007.[11] Information technology was directed by Rob Ashford and starred Lara Pulver equally Lucille, Bertie Carvel as Leo, Jayne Wisener as Mary and Stuart Matthew Price as Young Soldier/Frankie.[12] Pulver was nominated for the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Carvel was nominated for Best Histrion in a Musical. A double-CD cast recording of this production has been released by Outset Night Records. The recording includes new material written past Brown for the production and contains all songs and dialogue from the Donmar product. The large Broadway orchestration was reduced by David Cullen and Brown to a nine piece ensemble consisting of ii pianos, squeeze box, percussion, clarinet, horn and strings.[13]
Another off-West End production opened on August 10, 2011 for a 6-week date ending September 17, at the Southwark Playhouse'south Vault Theatre. It was directed by Thom Southerland, with musical staging by Tim Jackson. Alastair Brookshaw played Leo, Laura Pitt-Pulford was Lucille, Simon Bailey was Tom and Marker Inscoe was Hugh.[fourteen]
Los Angeles [edit]
Parade was staged at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Palos Verdes Estates, California, from July ix, 2008. The production was directed by Brady Schwind. The production starred Craig D'Amico equally Leo, Emily Olson as Lucille and Alissa Anderegg every bit Mary.[15]
The Donmar production transferred to the Marking Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California, in September 2009, for a run through November xv, 2009. Pulver reprised her role as Lucille reverse T.R. Knight as Leo. The cast too included Michael Berresse, Christian Hoff, Hayley Podschun, Rose Sezniak and Phoebe Strole.[xvi]
Avery Fisher Hall concert [edit]
On February sixteen, 2015, a concert production of Parade was staged at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center by Manhattan Concert Productions, directed past Gary Griffin and conducted by composer Jason Robert Brown. Jeremy Hashemite kingdom of jordan and Laura Benanti starred as Leo and Lucille, with Ramin Karimloo as Tom, Joshua Henry as Jim, Andy Mientus as Britt, Emerson Steele every bit Mary, Katie Rose Clarke equally Mrs. Phagan, John Ellison Conlee every bit Hugh, Davis Gaines every bit Judge Roan/Erstwhile Soldier and Alan Campbell equally Governor Slaton.[17]
Awards and nominations [edit]
Original Broadway product [edit]
| Year | Laurels Ceremony | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Tony Honor | Best Musical | Nominated | |
| Best Book of a Musical | Alfred Uhry | Won | ||
| Best Original Score | Jason Robert Brown | Won | ||
| Best Operation past a Leading Actor in a Musical | Brent Carver | Nominated | ||
| All-time Operation past a Leading Actress in a Musical | Carolee Carmello | Nominated | ||
| All-time Direction of a Musical | Harold Prince | Nominated | ||
| Best Choreography | Patricia Birch | Nominated | ||
| Best Orchestrations | Don Sebesky | Nominated | ||
| Best Breathtaking Design | Riccardo Hernandez | Nominated | ||
| Drama Desk Honour | Outstanding Musical | Won | ||
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Alfred Uhry | Won | ||
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Brent Carver | Won | ||
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Carolee Carmello | Won | ||
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Rufus Bonds, Jr. | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Harold Prince | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Choreography | Patricia Birch | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Don Sebesky | Won | ||
| Outstanding Lyrics | Jason Robert Dark-brown | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Music | Won | |||
| Outstanding Set Design | Riccardo Hernandez | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Lighting Pattern | Howell Binkley | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Audio Design | Jonathan Deans | Nominated | ||
Original London production [edit]
| Year | Award Ceremony | Category | Nominee | Consequence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best New Musical | Nominated | |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Bertie Carvel | Nominated | ||
| Best Actress in a Musical | Lara Pulver | Nominated | ||
| Best Operation in a Supporting Role in a Musical | Shaun Escoffery | Nominated | ||
| Best Director | Rob Ashford | Nominated | ||
| Best Theatre Choreographer | Nominated | |||
| Best Sound Design | Terry Jardine and Nick Lidster | Nominated | ||
Notes [edit]
- ^ Anti-Defamation League information Archived 2008-04-14 at the Wayback Automobile
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin. "Songwriting Challenge of Historic Proportions", The New York Times, December 22, 1998, p. E1
- ^ a b Diversity, Legit Reviews, Charles Isherwood, Dec 21, 1998 – January 3, 1999, p. 85
- ^ Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA), "Poignant Parade probes America's heart", Iris Fanger, p. xix, Dec 18, 1998
- ^ Links to numerous reviews
- ^ New York Times, Jesse McKinley, interview with Bernard Gersten, 2/3/99, p. B2
- ^ Mira Felner, Claudia Orenstein (2006). The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation. Allyn & Bacon. p. 330-331.
- ^ Jones, Kenneth. Playbill News: Parade Will March Into GA, TN, PA, WI, CO, WA in 2000 Tour", Playbill, November 10, 1999 Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Parade Tour, with Pittu and Burns, Begins June 13–18 in Atlanta", Playbill, May 12, 2000
- ^ Jones, Chris. "Reviews. Parade", Variety, August 14, 2000
- ^ "Parade Comes to London Autumn 2007". 22 February 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-22 .
- ^ London casting data OfficialLondonTheatre.com, 20 July 2007
- ^ London "Parade" to Release Bandage Recording (Playbill, 10/24/07) Archived 2008-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Blank, Matthew. "Jason Robert Brown's Parade at London'due south Vault Theatre", August 24, 2011, accessed June 10, 2020
- ^ Farber, Jim. "Controversial musical Parade finally marches into PVE", Los Angeles Daily News, July ix, 2008, accessed August eight, 2020
- ^ BWW News Desk.[ane] broadwayworld.com, June 23, 2009
- ^ Hetrick, Adam. "Full Bandage Revealed For 'Parade' in Concert Starring Jeremy Hashemite kingdom of jordan and Laura Benanti", Playbill, January xix, 2015
References [edit]
- Extensive website about the prove
- Cast and other information from the GeoCities Jason Robert Chocolate-brown website
- All the Wasted Time – Parade
- Parade at the Music Theatre International website
- Contour of the show at the NODA website indicating which characters sing which numbers [ dead link ]
External links [edit]
- Parade at the Internet Broadway Database
- New York Times review, 12/18/98
- List of numerous productions of Parade between 2001 and 2004
- New York Times review of Los Angeles production, 12/fourteen/09
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade_%28musical%29
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