Parade on Broadway Starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond Tickets

By: Alfred Uhry
Songs by: Jason Robert Brown
Director: Michael Arden
Choreography: Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant
Cast list: Ben Platt (as Leo Frank), Micaela Diamond (as Lucille Frank), Alex Joseph Grayson (as Jim Conley), Sean Allan Krill (as Governor Slaton), Howard McGillin (as Old Soldier/Judge Roan), Paul Alexander Nolan (as Hugh Dorsey), Jay Armstrong Johnson (as Britt Craig), Kelli Barrett (as Mrs. Phagan), Courtnee Carter (as Angela), Eddie Cooper (as Newt Lee), Erin Rose Doyle (as Mary Phagan), Manoel Felciano (as Tom Watson), Danielle Lee Greaves (as Minnie McKnight), Douglas Lyons (as Riley), Jake Pedersen (as Frankie Epps), Florrie Bagel (as Nurse), Stacie Bono (as Sally Slaton), Max Chernin (as Mr. Turner), Emily Rose DeMartino (as Essie and others), Christopher Gurr (as Luther Rosser/Mr. Peavy), Beth Kirkpatrick (as Nina Formby), Ashlyn Maddox (as Monteen and others), Sophia Manicone (as Iola Stover), William Michals (as Detective Starnes), Jackson Teeley (as Officer Ivey), Charlie Webb (as Young Soldier)
Design: Dane Laffrey
Costumes: Susan Hilferty
Lighting: Heather Gilbert
Sound: Jon Weston
Other info: Projection design by Sven Ortel, music direction by Tom Murray, hair and wig design by Tom Watson

Big news! Dear Evan Hansen's Ben Platt and The Cher Show's Micaela Diamond star in the Tony Award-winning first Broadway revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's Parade. Get Parade tickets on TodayTix, and see the Best Musical Revival winner before the parade passes by on August 6.

The Parade musical is based on actual historical events: The lead character, Leo Frank (Platt), was a factory manager in 1913 Georgia accused of assaulting and murdering a 13-year-old factory worker. The show follows Frank through his trial, imprisonment, and eventual lynching as a result of the anti-Semitism that Frank's criminalization unleashed. With an emotional script and songs that incorporate folk, gospel, blues, and pop-rock, Parade explores the roles the sensational media, the public, and Frank himself played in the outcome of the event, and the effects it had on Frank's marriage.

Parade was Brown's first Broadway show, and it would lead to a successful career that also produced Broadway musicals like 13 and The Bridges of Madison County. (His other best-known work, The Last Five Years, has never run on Broadway.)

Parade on Broadway only ran for two months between 1998-99, but it won Brown and Uhry the Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book, respectively. The show got seven other nominations, including Best Musical.

In 2022, Parade was included in New York City Center's Encores! season; the program mounts musicals that don't get revived often. Platt also starred in that six-day run, and that production is the one now on Broadway. Out of six 2023 Tony Award nominations, its wins included Best Direction of a Musical for Michael Arden.

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What to Watch For

• Parade bookwriter Alfred Uhry has a personal connection to the story: His great uncle owned the pencil factory Leo Frank oversaw.
• Uhry achieved his greatest success with the 1988 Pulitzer-winning Driving Miss Daisy.
• Jason Robert Brown conducted the musical himself for the New York City Center run.
• In the City Center production, Platt sat on stage for the entire intermission each night, in character as Frank in jail.
• Director Harold Prince initially asked Stephen Sondheim to write the Parade score, but he declined. Prince's daughter recommended Brown, and the rest is history!
• Another modern classic musical, Chicago, is also about American media sensationalizing crime. Like Parade, that musical is also based on real events, though more loosely.
• When Parade passes by...again! Fifty years before this Parade premiered, a 1935 musical/sketch revue with the same name went up on Broadway. There's no relation between the two.