Parade, the 1998 Broadway musical now undergoing its first New York revival, is not an uplifting show. The book by Alfred Uhry (author of Driving Miss Daisy), with music and lyrics from Jason Robert Brown, tells the ill-fated story of Leo Frank, a New York Jewish transplant to Atlanta falsely scapegoated for the murder of a 13-year-old white girl at his pencil factory in 1913; the wave of antisemitism that led to his conviction and lynching two years later spurred both the formation of the Anti-Defamation League and the resurgence of the KKK. The show doesn’t obscure the tragic facts...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
