Jeremy Jordan "PARADE" Laura Benanti / Jason Robert Brown 2015 Concert Flyer

Description

This is a beautiful oversized card promoting the one-night Concert Performance of the ALFRED UHRY and JASON ROBERT BROWN musical "PARADE" at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City on February 16th, 2015. (The Original Broadway production opened December 17th, 1998 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City and ran for 85 performances.) ..... Following the phenomenal success of "Ragtime" in 2013, and "Titanic" in 2014, Manhattan Concert Productions revived the Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning score of "PARADE" and brought it back to Lincoln Center where it all began in 1998. The concert performance of
Parade
starred JEREMY JORDAN as "Leo Frank" and LAURA BENANTI as his devoted wife and featured over 200 auditioned singers from across the U.S., a full professional Broadway Cast, and the enlarged forces of the New York City Chamber Orchestra. Composer JASON ROBERT BROWN was at the helm to direct the star-studded cast and full chorus as Music Director, joined by Olivier Award-nominee GARY GRIFFIN as Director. The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager
Leo Frank
,
who was accused and convicted of
raping
and murdering a thirteen year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused some
antisemitic
tensions in
Atlanta,
Georgia
.
When Frank's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by the departing
Governor of Georgia
,
John M. Slaton
due
to his detailed review of over 10,000 pages of testimony and possible problems with the trial,
Leo Frank
was transferred to a prison in Milledgeville,
Georgia
,
where a
lynching
party seized and kidnapped him. Frank was taken to Phagan's hometown of
Marietta, Georgia
,
where he was
hanged
from an oak tree. Both the author, ALFRED UHRY and the composer, JASON ROBERT BROWN were honored with 1999 Tony Awards for "Best Book of a Musical" and "Best Original Musical Score" respectively ..... CREDITS: Book by ALFRED UHRY; Music and Lyrics by JASON ROBERT BROWN ("Parade", "Songs for a New World", "The Last 5 Years", "Urban Cowboy", "13", "Honeymoon in Vegas", "The Bridges of Madison County"); Co-Conceived by HAROLD PRINCE; Orchestra Conducted by JASON ROBERT BROWN; Directed by GARY GRIFFIN; Produced by MANHATTAN CONCERT PRODUCTIONS ..... DETAILS: The oversized flyer measures 6" X 10 1/2" inches, is printed on a heavy card stock and includes wonderful graphics and production credits on the front and promotional text and production credits on the backside ..... CONDITION: This flyer is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.