Parade

Parade (1998), a musical play by Alfred Uhry (book), Jason Robert Brown (music, lyrics). [ Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 85 perf.; NYDCC Award.] When a fourteen‐year‐old girl is found murdered in the basement of the Atlanta factory where she worked, suspicion immediately falls on Leo Frank (Brent Carver), the aloof Jewish manager of the factory from Brooklyn. The press rallies the public against the non‐Christian Yankee, a string of lies is presented at his trial, and Frank is found guilty. His wife, Lucille (Carolee Carmello), convinces the governor to commute the sentence, but an angry mob storms the jail and lynches Frank from a tree. Notable songs: The Old Red Hills of Home; All the Wasted Time; You Don't Know This Man. Based on a true case in Atlanta in 1915, the dark musical, produced by Lincoln Center, met with mixed notices, though there was wide praise for the cast, Hal Prince's direction, and the score. Jason Robert BROWN (b. 1970) was born in Ossining, New York, the son of a salesman and a schoolteacher, and educated at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Brown's first score to be heard in New York was Songs for a New World (1995) Off Broadway, and he made his Broadway debut with Parade. He is also the author‐composer of the two‐character musical The Last Five Years (2001).

Ballet in one act with choreography by Massine, libretto by Cocteau, music by Satie, and designs by Picasso. Premiered 18 May 1917 by the Ballets Russes de Diaghilev at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with Lopokova, Massine, Woizikowski, and Zvereff. In the ballet a group of music hall artists, desperate to attract an audience into their show, perform in the street outside their theatre. For a work that was so rarely performed, Parade had an enormous influence, hailed in its day as a perfect marriage of painting, dance, scenario, and music. Picasso's flamboyant sets and costumes, which dominate the ballet, are the most important example of Cubist art ever seen in the theatre. Satie's collage score, which counts a typewriter and sirens among its sounds, was strikingly original. Parade was revived for the Ballet of the 20th Century (1964), the City Center Joffrey Ballet (1973), London Festival Ballet (1974), and Zurich Ballet (1981).