Ben Platt and the producers of Parade are speaking out after the first performance of the Broadway revival about the true story of a Jewish man named Leo Frank who was lynched in 1915 was met with antisemitic protesters outside the Bernard B.
Jacobs Theatre in New York City. Starring Platt and Micaela Diamond as Leo and Lucille Frank, Parade dramatizes the 1913 rape and murder trial of 13-year-old Mary Phagan.
After being falsely convicted in the case, Frank was sentenced to life in prison. But upon his transfer to prison, he was kidnapped and then lynched by an angry white mob.
In an official description of the show, the couple goes through “an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion.
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