Original Listing Description

This is a beautiful programme (playbill) from the Original West End production of the ALFRED UHRY and JASON ROBERT BROWN musical "PARADE" at the Donmar Warehouse in London. (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. The London production opened September 14th, 2007 and ran for a limited engagement of ten weeks.) ..... 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 ..... The musical starred BERTIE CARVEL (in his musical theatre debut) as "Leo Frank" and LARA PULVER as "Lucille Frank" and featured HELEN ANKER, MARK BONMAR, NORMAN BOWMAN, SHAUN ESCOFFERY, JOANNA KIRKLAND, GARY MILNER, STEVEN PAGE, MALINDA PARRIS, STUART MATTHEW PRICE, ZOE RAINEY, CELIA MEI RUBIN, STEPHEN WEBB and JAYNE WISENER ..... 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; Sets and Costumes designed by CHRISTOPHER ORAM; Directed and Choreographed by ROB ASHFORD; Produced by the DONMAR WAREHOUSE ..... DETAILS: The 40 page program measures 5 1/2" X 11 3/4" inches and includes full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, historical text, individual photos and bios of each of the actors, bios of each member of the creative team and two pages of rehearsal photos ..... CONDITION: With the exception of small pinch marks along the seam, this program 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.

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