PARADE
Middletown Lyric Theatre
Sept. 18-26
Middletown
Director/Musical Staging by Charley Shafor
Vocal/Music Direction by Brett Greenwood
Cast: Kevin Stout as Leo M. Frank, Julia Abanto-Bethune as Lucille Frank, Jason Easter as Britt Craig, Kristen Erdman as Mrs. Phagan, Nathan Greer as Gov. John Slaton, Angie Markham as Sally Slaton, Duane Gordon as Hugh Dorsey, Victoria Garcia as Lizzie Phagan, Darien Wynn as Jim Conley, Seth Allen as Frankie, Alicia Moore as Angela, Ashley Shamp as Mary Phagan, Emma Janson as Lola Stover, Joe Cunningham as Judge Roan, Elizabeth Lindon as Monteen,Kayla Blair as Essie, Pam Steiniger as Mrs. McDaniel, David Jenkins as Ivey/Guard, Joel Butch as Det. Starnes, Cynthia Tate as Mrs. Stover & Michael Scholtterbeck as Luther Rosser
The tragic, true story of the trial and lynching of a man wrongly accused of murder is brought to theatrical life. Amid religious intolerance, political injustice and racial tension. Parade explores the endurance of love and hope against all the odds. In 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
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 18-19 at 8pm
- Fri, Sept. 24 at 8pm
- Sat, Sept. 26 at 3pm & 8pm
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