Parade
Shows · Parade
In 1913 Atlanta, Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent from Brooklyn, is wrongfully accused of murdering thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, one of his workers. As anti-Semitism, political ambition, and mob mentality fuel a rush to judgment, Leo and his wife Lucille fight desperately to prove his innocence. The trial becomes a national sensation that exposes the deep racial and religious prejudices of the American So…
- Opened
- 1998
- Performances
- 84
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions5 on Broadway
| 1935 | Guild Theatre Original. May 20, 1935 · Philip Loeb · predates this show | 40 performances |
| 1998 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival. December 17, 1998 · Harold Prince | 84 performances |
| 2008 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 2011 | Transfer Theatre unknown. August 10, 2011 | |
| 2023 | Bernard B Jacobs Theatre Revival. March 16, 2023 · Michael Arden | 169 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 5 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Parade matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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50 passages naming Parade, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
An eagerly-awaited musical in 1998 proved to be a letdown. Parade, a musical treatment of a very tragic real-life incident, turned out to be too grim for the musical stage. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p330
Another off-Broadway show, Parade, followed in January 1960. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p262
Ed Wynn was coauthor, producer, and director as well as star of The Laugh Parade (11/2/31; 243 performances). Harry Warren contributed music with accompanying lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p277
LIGHTNIN’ PARADE. Lightnin’ was a play by Frank Bacon (also its star) and Winthrop Ames that opened at the Garety THEATER on August 26, 1918. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p320
Porgy and Bess (1935), Finian’s Rainbow (1947), Street Scene (1947), Big River (1985), Ragtime (1998), Parade (1998), The Wild Party (2000), and Hair-spray (2002). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p321
PARADE was produced by a young branch of The Theatre Guild, much as the initial GARRICK GAIETIES [Rodgers: May 17, 1925] had been. But PARADE was extremely political—much to the embarrassment of the Guild—and received a stormy reception. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p345
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