TV Exclusive: PARADE Finds Its 'Leo Frank'- Jeremy Jordan Will Lead Manhattan Concert Productions Performance in February!

Manhattan Concert Productions just announced television, film and Broadway star, Jeremy Jordan, has joined the cast of a one night only concert performance of the TONY Award-winning Broadway musical, Parade, on February 16, 2015, at 8:00 p.m. EST at Avery Fisher Hall Lincoln Center. Jordan will join the cast as Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jewish factory manager accused and convicted of killing a thirteen-yearold employee in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913. Three-time TONY Award winner and original composer, Jason Robert Brown, will conduct this star-studded cast and full chorus alongside Oliver Award nominee Gary Griffin as Director and Tom Murray as Music Supervisor.

Following the success of Titanic in 2014 and Ragtime in 2013, Manhattan Concert Productions is bringing to life this TONY and Dram Desk award winning score at Lincoln Center where it all began in 1998. This concert performance will include a 200-voice chorus along with a full professional Broadway cast to include Jordan. Jeremy most recently starred as real life "Peter Pan" writer J.M. Barrie in the stage musical version of "Finding Neverland" at the A.R.T.

Parade, which was Brown's first Broadway production, also won a Pulitzer Prize for playwright Alfred Uhry's book adaptation of the story. Of the score, Variety wrote [it] "draws on a variety of influences, from pop-rock, to folk, to rhythm and blues, to gospel."

For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.mcp.us or www.lincolncenter.org; call Center Charge at (212) 721-6500; or by visiting the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office at 10 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 65th Street). Tickets are currently starting at $50

Manhattan Concert Productions is an esteemed production company in its 16th season. MCP has provided opportunity to thousands of musicians in choirs, bands, and orchestras that have performed at famous venues throughout the United States and many countries abroad. Additionally, MCP regularly features the work of professional singers, actors, instrumentalists, conductors and composers. The guest musicians of the Parade chorus will spend five days in New York City rehearsing and performing side-by-side with the professional principal cast and crew as part of Manhattan Concert Productions' continuing mission of student and professional collaboration. Visit www.mcp.us to learn more.