Parade, 1998

The run closed February 28, 1999

Opened

December 17, 1998

Closed

February 28, 1999

Performances

84

Previews

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Theatre

Vivian Beaumont Theater

Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 155th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Parade 4 more that season

Who was in it35 named

J B Adams
Adinah Alexander
Ray Aranha
Rufus Bonds Jr
Duane Boutte
Diana Brownstone
Jeff Edgerton
Thursday Farrar
Will Gartshore
John Hickok
Abbi Hutcherson
Tad Ingram
Emily Klein
Angela Lockett
Kirk Mcdonald
J C Montgomery
Brooke Sunny Moriber
Randy Redd
Joel Robertson
Christy Carlson Romano
Peter Samuel
Robin Skye
Bill Szobody
Anne Torsiglieri
Melanie Vaughan
John Leslie Wolfe
Wysandria Woolsey

8 of these 35 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 27 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters26 roles recorded

Brent Carver Leo Frank
Carolee Carmello Lucille Frank
Kirk McDonald Frankie Epps
Jeff Edgerton Young Confederate Soldier
Christy Carlson Romano Mary Phagan
Herndon Lackey Hugh Dorsey
John Hickok Governor John Slaton
Evan Pappas Britt Craig
Don Stephenson Mr. Peavy
J. B. Adams Luther Rosser
Tad Ingram Officer Ivey
Randy Redd Prison Guard (Mr. Turner)
Rufus Bonds, Jr. Jim Conley
Ray Aranha Newt Lee
J. C. Montgomery Riley
John Leslie Wolfe Tom Watson
Peter Samuel J. N. Starnes
Brooke Sunny Moriber Iola Stover
Emily Klein Essie
Abbi Hutcherson Monteen
Angela Lockett Angela
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Don Chastain Judge Leonard Roan
Jessica Molaskey Mrs. Frances Phagan
Anne Torsiglieri Sally Slaton
Adinah Alexander Nurse

Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Harold Prince

Choreographer

Patricia Birch

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Around this production

Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment and 1915 lynching of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia. The musical premiered on Broadway in December 1998 and won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score (out of nine nominations) and six Drama Desk Awards. After closing on Broadway in February 1999, the show has had a US national tour and a few professional productions in the US and UK. Its 2023 Broadway staging was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning two, including Best Revival of a Musical.

• An eagerly-awaited musical in 1998 proved to be a letdown. Parade, a musical treatment of a very tragic real-life incident, turned out to be too grim for the musical stage. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 330
• Another off-Broadway show, Parade, followed in January 1960. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 262
• Ed Wynn was coauthor, producer, and director as well as star of The Laugh Parade (11/2/31; 243 performances). Harry Warren contributed music with accompanying lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 277
• LIGHTNIN’ PARADE. Lightnin’ was a play by Frank Bacon (also its star) and Winthrop Ames that opened at the Garety THEATER on August 26, 1918. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 320
• Porgy and Bess (1935), Finian’s Rainbow (1947), Street Scene (1947), Big River (1985), Ragtime (1998), Parade (1998), The Wild Party (2000), and Hair-spray (2002). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 321

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No recording is held for Parade at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.