Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond star in 'Parade,' a musical based upon the true story of Leo Frank—a Brooklyn Jew who moves to the south and is accused of the murder of a young girl.
when we spoke. “But I find I can channel that pretty well into the characters I play,” he adds.
Uhry, who is 86, grew up in Atlanta’s German Jewish community—his great-uncle owned the pencil factory where Phagan and Frank worked. “Nobody would talk about the Leo Frank case,” he recalls on the phone from his apartment on the Upper West Side. “I remember being a little kid, one time when my parents had company over and somebody brought up Leo Frank, and one of the men at the gathering just got up and walked out of the room.
It also reverberated across the nation, as a defining moment in both the American Jewish experience and race relations. The murders of Phagan and Frank lent urgency to the newly created Anti-Defamation League—founded in 1913 with the mission “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment for all”—but also galvanized a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. finds beauty and solace in its story of a marriage, and in the interior transformations of Leo and Lucille.
For her, the character of Lucille—a would-be Southern belle who finds the strength to step beyond the limits of that vexed ideal—allows us to explore the complex ways in which racism and antisemitism are intertwined. “Lucille, like so many Jews before and after her, is white until she is undeniably Jewish,” Diamond explains, “and she has to confront that reality, both in her husband and in herself.
Lucille is also “one of the great roles for Jewish women in musical theater—though it’s quite a short list,” Diamond says, citing Fanny in
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