CityLife

The tragic, true story of the trial and lynching of a man wrongly accused of murder is to be rekindled by the critically acclaimed youth music theatre with Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's hard hitting, Tony Award winning musical Parade. In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born 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.

CityLife review

Any initial misgivings about this musical were completely quashed after the triumphant opening number.more