Bay Area Premiere of "Parade," With Local Teen Actors

• Youth Musical Theater Company's talented teen performers from throughout the Bay Area, including Albany, El Cerrito, Kensington, Richmond, and Berkeley, bring history to life. 

THERE ARE TWO MATINEE PERFORMANCES:  2pm on February 27 (featuring an educational panel after the performance including Artistic Director Jennifer Boesing, Nina Grotch, Education Director for the ADL, and actors) as well as 2pm, March 6.

Winner of 2 Tony awards and 6 Drama Desk awards, PARADE dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager, Leo Frank, who was falsely convicted of murdering a thirteen-year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, fueled by political ambition and sensationalized by the media, aroused anti-Semitic tensions in Atlanta, Georgia. Filled with beautiful and evocative music, PARADE is at once a riveting murder mystery, a gripping courtroom drama, a moving love story, a profile in courage and a searing social commentary. The Leo Frank trial and subsequent lynching gave rise to both the Ku Klux Klan (known at the time as the Knights of Mary Phagan), as well as the Anti- Defamation League. Book by acclaimed playwright Alfred Uhry (“Driving Miss Daisy”), and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, one of Broadway’s most exciting composers (“Songs For A New World”, “The Last Five Years”), PARADE brings this defining event in American history to life, and YMTC is thrilled to produce the Bay Area Premiere.

NOTE:  Due to the subject of the musical, it is not recommended for elementary aged students.  Parents are encouraged to visit the YMTC website (www.ymtcberkeley.org) to learn more about the production, and to also view an on-line educational guide.