Parade occurs as musical that opened on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on December 17, 1998 with a book byAlfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. A premier was directed by Harold Prince and closed 28 February 1999 after 85 performances.

A indicate garnered Nine Tony Award nominations & won 2 awards, for Right Book of the Musical (Uhry) and Right Original Musical Score (Red).

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A UK première ran from Fifth to 28 August at the Southside Theatre as part of the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe, playing per prevent of the redo to packed houses & standing ovations.

Plot
A musical theater concerns a 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank who was accused of raping and murdering a 13 year old employee, Mary Phagan. A test, sensationalized per media, aroused anti-Semetic tensions in Atlanta and the state of Georgia. While Frank's phrase was commuted ascribable conceivable problms by owning the test & he was transferred to a prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, a lynching party broke him out of a prison. Frank was taken to Phagan's hometown of Marietta, Georgia and he was hung.