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Arts & Entertainment
Lasting Legacy
The story of Leo Frank continues to resonate,
as it does in an upcoming production of the Alfred
Uhry/Jason Robert Brown musical "Parade."
FRAN KAPLAN
Special to the Jewish News
is
score is flavored with blues, gospel and
a variety of other forms, including clas-
sic hymns and marches. Parade won
the Tony for Best Original Musical
Score for the Jewish Broadway rookie
when he was only 28. (His latest musi-
cal, The Last Five Years, is currently
beginning its Off-Broadway run.)
ighty-six years ago, Leo
Frank — the only Jewish
man ever to be "lynched" in
America — was dragged
from his jail cell by a mob and hung
from a tree in Marietta, Ga., until
dead. Ancient history, perhaps, but an
incident which continues to hold our
The Frank Story
horror and fascination. So much so,
Leo Frank was a trans-
that over the years the topic has
lant from New York. He
spawned a TV movie, two plays, a
moved to Atlanta to help
musical and more than six books.
h is uncle in the founding
The two most lasting legacies from
0 f the National Pencil Co.
Leo Frank
the infamous moment were the cre-
On April 26, 1913,
ation of the Anti-Defamation League
Confederate Memorial
and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan,
Day, he worked in his office at the fact o-
which had been quiet for 40 years
ry while others celebrated and watched a
until Frank went on trial.
arade honoring the soldiers of the
The musical version of Frank's story,
S outh. Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old fac
Parade, will play at Ann Arbor's Power
t ort' worker, stopped by to pick up her
Center for the Performing Arts April
ay from Frank, and that was the last
time she was seen alive. Her body
was found the next morning in th e
basement of the factory
"Leo Frank was ugly, he was littl e,
he had a short temper, thick Coke
bottle glasses and a very strong Ne
York accent," says Uhry. "He was
pretty unlikable. The only thing he
wasn't, was guilty"
But as a "carpetbagger"
Northerner, he was an attractive
villain, and on Aug. 25, 1913, he
was found guilty with very little
U-M's Musical Theater Department mount s a
hard evidence. In the heat of the
production of the musical "Parade" April 11.-14. trial, many of Atlanta's Jews,
Stan Bahorek, far right, plays Leo Frank.
aware of the anger raging around
them, fearfully went to visit
11-14 in a production mounted by
fri ends and relatives in other states.
the U-M Musical Theatre
he appeals for Frank went on for two
Department. Parade is the story of
ye ars, but the verdict remained guilty.
Frank's fight against his wrongful
With just two days remaining in his
accusation amid the bigotry of the
ter m as governor of Georgia, John Slaton
post-Civil War South and the inflam-
co mmuted Frank's [death] sentence to
matory power of the press. It also is
life in prison, and in so doing sacrificed
about the love between Leo and his
the rest of his political career. The well-
wife, Lucille, as they attempted to
lik ed politician was forced to leave
fight the odds and win Leo's freedom.
Ad anta and live in exile for many years.
Anti-Semitism is central to the
For his own safety, Frank was moved
theme in Parade, which won play-
to a prison in Milledgeville, Ga., where
wright Alfred Uhry, then 62 and an
on the night of Aug. 16, 1915, he was
Atlanta native, the 1999 Tony Award
pul led from his bed in his nightshirt,
for Best Book of a Musical.
dri ven to Marietta and hung.
Composer Jason Robert Brown's
I n 1982, an ailing 83-year-old