PARADE at WILMINGTON DRAMA LEAGUE

The tragic, true story of the trial and lynching of a man wrongly accused of murder is brought to emotional and theatrical life by acclaimed playwright a href="http://mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000221#"Alfred Uhry/a (span style="font-weight: bold;"DRIVING MISS DAISY/span) and a href="http://mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000221#"Jason Robert Brown/a, one of Broadway?s most promising young composers (a href="http://mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000191"strongSONGS FOR A NEW WORLD/strong/a).brbrIn 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor?s false testimony seal Leo?s fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion.brbrDaring, innovative and bold, strongPARADE/strong won well-earned Tony® Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000. Its subject matter offers a moral lesson about the dangers of prejudice and ignorance that should not be forgotten.

Authors

• Alfred Uhry
• David Lesan
• Frank Gabrielson
• George Sklar
• Harold Prince
• Jason Robert Brown
• Jerry Herman
• Kyle Crichton
• Paul Peters

Tony Awards and Nominations for PARADE