‘Parade’ turns a miscarriage of justice into gripping musical drama

Leo Frank, the director of a pencil factory in Georgia, was accused of killing a 13 -year -old Mary Fagan. His trial of 1913 led to his conviction despite bad evidence and manipulation of an ambitious claim lawyer, who has been patient with the jury’s biases.

After a series of failed appeals, Frank’s penalty was reduced by the ruler, but it was kidnapped and was broadcast by the mob that has not been imposed by his death penalty. The story got the national attention and shed light on the rift lines in our criminal justice system.

This dark chapter in American history may not seem suitable for music therapy. Docudrama will be the safest way to go, given the seriousness of the material. But theater writer Alfred Uri, composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown had a vision of what they could bring uniquely to tell the story of Frank.

In 1998, their musician was an important but difficult sale. This show has spanned more liked than the beloved, and it has spanned an open challenge for theater artists attracted to the developed majesty of the Braun award -winning degree, but it is horrific than the wide range of the Tony award -winning UHRY.

exit Michael Jordan He answered the call in his Tony’s -winning revival, who arrived at the Ahnnson Theater in a sharp form. Production, which was launched in downtown New York City before moving to Broadway, has proven that the loss could also be an emotionally exciting blow.

The “show” covers a lot of cultural, historical and political land. The trial, preceded by the civil war shot that defines the procedure in the right context, takes a lot of the first act. But music also tells the story of marriage that grows deeply because the external reality becomes more treacherous.

It is a great thing, but ARNEN, working alongside the scenic designer Dane Laffrey, may imagine the gradual in the style of New-Berkhti, which allows the historical background to transfer it smoothly. Sven Ortel is smoothly integrating the necessary information, allowing the focus on human figures that were hunting in the cheaters of American and barbaric intolerance.

Daniel Lee Griffs, Left, and Talia Soskur in the national tour of the “show”. Soskur plays Lusail, Leo’s wife.

(Joan Marcos)

The regulation of the 2007 Donnar warehouse, directed by Rob Ashord, came to Mark, Taper Forum In 2009, he promised that he had recently discovered the musician. Production has been reduced, but the full “show” force has not been released. A serious layer of “importance” has closed the emotional relationship of the public with the characters, even if it turned around a more hosting space for this dramatic music than Ahmaron.

The production of Arden comes, simultaneously, intimate and epic, with a beautiful way on the larger stage. “Procession”, which turns into anti -Semitism, and the bias of the system in our judicial system and the bright demagoguery power to honor the compatible hatred for self -harmony, has a worrying timing. But the production – which was extremely important in its subject,, in his theatrical style – allows contemporary suspicions to talk about themselves.

Bin PlattWho played the role of Leo, and Michaella Diamond, who played the role of Leo, Lusail, made this Broadway revived the most personal terms. For the tour, these roles are seized by Max Cherine and Talia Soskur. Both are excellent, if it is less privacy in a syndrome. However, the humility of their photography draws us skillfully.

Chris Sheter, the left, and Alison Intig play the role of the governor of Slaaton and his wife, one of the most noble characters in the show.

(Joan Marcos)

Leo Chernin is New Yorker in New Yorker in the Ivy Lought in Minutiae of his responsibilities in the factory. A man more than a person, it’s a fish in Atlanta, and he is speaking in the song “How can I name this house?” Platic comedy played the ideal Jewish strangers in the land of the Confederate Monument and Literature. Cherine, more in his way, sees with highly feasible horror.

The catering nature of Chernin’s Leo constitutes some theatrical risks, but it has a long way to explain how it can turn to the other in this malicious way. Leo is making a little effort to suit it, and more than just its noble separation.

It takes some time until Suskauer’s Lucille in itself, as a wife and theatrical character. It is not even the second half, and faces the imminent death of her husband, affirms herself and rises in a place in the eyes of Liu and her fans. But a glimmer of these capabilities comes out in the first verb when Lusail sings with a sad conviction, “You do not know this man”, which is one of the prominent numbers in the result that is characterized by individual melodies less than a prominent publication in a set of musical style (from military rhythms to popular songs and from Trends to jazz) to tell the story from watching.

Max Cherine Liu is a player in Nurbal born in the ivy league who lost in Minota his responsibilities in the factory.

(Joan Marcos)

“This has not ended yet,” it raises the hope that Liu Walsel finds a way to overcome the injustice that overwhelmed them. The date cannot be reviewed, but when there is a song, there is always an opportunity in the theater. However, the reality is painfully darkened in the influential duo “All the Lost Time”, which sings Lusail and Leo from his cell in prison – a moment of marital bliss from the husband and wife who, with the last hour approaching, has become partners on an equal footing.

Ramon Nelson, who plays the role of Jim Conley, a black factor in the factory that was confirmed to testify against Liu, is playing for “Blues: Feel the Rain”, a series of chain gang that replaces the house despite the challenge of the man who did not know a little justice, and was not interested in defending him. Konley was searched by the Governor Salton (kindly reliable Chris Sher), who reopened the investigation of Lusail only to reveal the contradictions and contradictions in the case. He is one of the most noble characters, no matter how he reluctant, is married to a woman (Alison Inti live) will not allow him to betray his safety, even if he is not very much.

Hugh Dorsi (Andrew Samonski), the prosecutor who was occupied by his future, has no remorse after he made a railway in a political trial that would cost him his life. Dormy is one of the main bad guys in musicians, but Samonsky resists Milodrama to find a reliable psychological line for the man who collected his career on the parties that justify the means.

Lucille (Talia Suskaur, Left) and Liu (Max Cherine) sing a duo of imprisonment from his imprisonment.

(Joan Marcos)

Brett Craig (Michael Takkoni), a lucky correspondent wandering in the Leo demon in the press, dances to his office when another towering scoop fell. But it is even more preoccupied with hateful. One of the signs of the Bergeti Production Nature is the way the structural forces at work in society are detected that it is more responsible than any individual personality. The press, such as the government and the judiciary, is part of an interior poisoning system.

Return to civil war is not in vain. The “offer” realizes that the original sin of America – slavery and economic bodies that have approved the abstraction of groups that are considered “other” – from the story of Leo.

The musician has never lost the poor Mary Vagan scene (Olivia Ghosman), a good minor girl who does not deserve to be killed brutally. Liu is unlikely to have any relationship to killing her, but the show does not raise her tragedy, even because it calculates the danger of Liu.

When Sherine Liu raises his voice in the Jewish prayer before hanging it, the memory of the man whose life has been destroyed is restored. His execution cannot be retracted, but his name can be recovered and our collective sins can be called for music accounting that has not been revived as if they were born again.