August 2014Parade is a modern musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It tells the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish Yankee factory supervisor, falsely accused of murder. Set in Marietta, Georgia in 1913, just 50 years after the Civil War, the mix of anti Yankee feeling and rife anti-Semitism at the time leads to a miss-carriage of justice with tragic consequences. Parade was first performed in 1998 and was the winner of many awards, including the Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Musical Score.
