Parade

“Georgia, home of the strong and sure, Fight like hell for the land of the pure! Teach the traitor to run away! Someone’s gotta pay!” On 26 April 1913, the day of Atlanta’s Confederate Memorial Day Parade, a 13-year-old girl is raped and murdered at the pencil factory where she works. Suspicion falls on factory manager Leo Frank, an educated Jew from New York. Frank’s subsequent trial and conviction, with its bloody aftermath, has long been regarded as a shocking miscarriage of justice brought about by anti-Semitic sentiment coupled with class and regional tensions. Parade, the Tony-award-winning musical based on this real-life event, is a powerful tale of racism, false patriotism and a love that grows stronger in the shadow of death. Performed by 3rd Year Music Theatre.