Parade
Opening Night: March 16, 2023
Theater: Bernard B. Jacobs
Website: paradebroadway.com
Leo and Lucille Frank are a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in the old red hills of Georgia. When Leo is accused of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice and devotion. Riveting and gloriously hopeful, Parade reminds us that to love, we must truly see one another.
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March 16, 2023
Yet in the riveting Broadway revival of the musical “Parade” that opened on Thursday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, it’s Micaela Diamond, as Lucille Frank, you watch most closely and who breaks your heart. With no affectation whatsoever, and a voice directly wired to her emotions, she makes Lucille our way into a story we might rather turn away from.
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March 16, 2023
“Parade” is a historical work, but Arden knows it did not need a heavy-handed contemporary revamp. Hatred is always timely, and violence has long been America’s beloved spectacle.
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March 16, 2023
Traveling from the relative calm of the Clinton era to more perilous, contemporary times of mobs, mendacity and political mayhem, the much-admired but short-lived musical “Parade” has now found its moment in a brilliant Broadway revival.
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March 16, 2023
With a cast as fine as it is large, led by Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond – two of the best singers currently on Broadway – Parade, set in 1913 Georgia, scores its topical points with all the artistry and theatrical know-how to meet and exceed its noble intensions. Parade is as commanding as any musical revival to hit Broadway in years.
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March 16, 2023
But director Michael Arden’s heart-piercing new production, introduced at City Center’s Encores! series last year and now playing a limited run at Broadway’s Jacobs Theatre, makes a masterful case for giving the show a new hearing—and what you hear at this Parade, as sung by a splendid cast led by Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, will echo for a long time to come.
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March 16, 2023
The Broadway revival of “Parade” originated a few months ago as a week-long production at City Center directed by Michael Arden (who has helmed solid revivals of “Spring Awakening” and “Once On This Island”) and starring Ben Platt as Leo Frank. It was a gripping and thrilling production that was absolutely worthy of a Broadway transfer and has gotten better since then.
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March 16, 2023
But director Michael Arden’s small-scale staging, which started as a City Center concert, has heart when it focuses squarely on the Franks’ relationship growing while their hardship intensifies.
March 16, 2023
While Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s “Parade” wasn’t ignored when it first opened in 1998 at Lincoln Center, its with its first Broadway revival, which opened Thursday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre under the direction of Michael Arden, that it takes its place as one of the great American musicals.
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Of the three productions I’ve reviewed, this is the most effective at transforming bleak truth into viably engaging entertainment. Because of the simplicity of the staging—Encores! concert productions transferring to Broadway, such as this one and the recent “Into the Woods,” are performed on minimalist sets—the musical seems less like a slab of sermonizing.
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March 16, 2023
Now with 24 years of retrospective appreciation under its belt, Parade is back on Broadway to remind audiences what musical theater can really do.
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March 16, 2023
The musical doesn’t know if Leo Frank is guilty, and by holding so close to identifiable bits of injustice he endured it soon exhausts its own emotional and storytelling fuel.
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March 16, 2023
By intermission, more than an hour into Arden’s nudging me about the show’s relevance, I was frustrated—but this is the rare musical that improves in its second act. Freer from just being a play-by-play of history, it begins to pursue insights about the texture of it: Frank’s feeling of being trapped, and his connection with Lucille reborn out of hardship.
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March 16, 2023
Director Michael Arden has moved his acclaimed production to Broadway after its celebrated seven-day run at New York City Center this past November. Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s stunning tale is just as breathtaking as before, with the added benefit of time and money to bring the show to a slightly elevated level.
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There’s nothing inevitable about “Parade,” anymore than there was about America’s abiding intolerance. And that’s the tricky thing about a show that always has inhabited a space somewhere between the melodramatic and the tragic. But melodrama just confirms. A richer understanding of the error of our collective ways always come from tragedy.
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Following a celebrated sold-out string of performances at the New York City Center in November, the show is returning to Broadway once again for the first time since its original 1998 run in a phenomenal production that feels more poignant and powerful than ever.
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It’s a rare and thrilling gift when a musical presents a song that stirs up a legitimate lump in your throat. Parade, back in a banner revival, sees its stars Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond work that special magic twice with a pair of duets, one hopeful and one crushing. Memo: Bring tissues.
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