Parade (1998 Original Broadway Cast)

Parade (1998 Original Broadway Cast)

Parade (1998 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1999-04-27
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
  1. The Old Red Hills of Home
  2. The Dream of Atlanta
  3. How Can I Call This Home
  4. The Picture Show
  5. Leo at Work/What Am I Waiting For?
  6. Interrogation: "I am trying to remember..."
  7. Big News!
  8. Funeral: There Is a Fountain/It Don't Make Sense
  9. Real Big News
  10. You Don't Know This Man
  11. The Trial: People of Atlanta
  12. Twenty Miles from Marietta
  13. Frankie's Testimony
  14. The Factory Girls/Come up to My Office
  15. My Child Will Forgive Me
  16. That's What He Said
  17. Leo's Statement: "It's hard to speak my heart"
  18. Summation & Cakewalk
  19. A Rumblin' and a Rollin'
  20. Do it Alone
  21. Pretty Music
  22. Letter to the Governor
  23. This Is Not Over Yet
  24. Blues: Feel the Rain Fall
  25. Where Will You Stand When the Flood Comes?
  26. All the Wasted Time
  27. Sh'ma
  28. Finale

Music reviews of Parade (1998 Original Broadway Cast)

Music Review: "Parade" a forgotten gem
Rating: 5 Stars

After I watched the recent PBS documentary about Leo Frank and the Mary Phagan murder, I began surfing the web for more information about this black day in twentieth century American history. To my surprise, I discovered this original cast recording of "Parade," which--unbelievably--is based on the erroneous conviction and subsequent lynching of a Jewish merchant in 1915 Atlanta. Cited as the only known Jew to be lynched on American soil, Leo Frank was the victim of hate, gossip, and a time in the American south when northerners--especially ethnic type such as Jews--were looked upon with derision. From this terrible story comes a brilliant musical, of all things, that ingeniously links the Frank case with echoes from the American Civil War. Someone ought to revive it; it's too great to be forgotten.

Description of Parade (1998 Original Broadway Cast)

The big winners at the 1999 Tony Awards were revivals or old dance numbers recycled into new shows. Yet earning the most nominations, nine (and taking home two awards, for book and original score), was an honest-to-goodness new American musical by a young American composer-lyricist, Jason Robert Brown (who was 28 when the show premiered at Lincoln Center in December 1998 and was best known for his song cycle Songs for a New World). In addition, the subject matter is serious and dark, based on the true story of Leo Frank, a New York-born Jew living in Atlanta who was falsely accused of raping and murdering a young girl, and not surprisingly, the run was limited to 84 performances.

The original cast recording survives, however, and from the stirring opening anthem, "The Old Red Hills of Home," Brown's score is full of riches, mixing period American styles with strong melodies, intricate counterpoint, selective dissonances, and natural lyrics that give their characters true, expressive voices. Leading the strong ensemble cast are Tony nominees Brent Carver and Carolee Carmello as the persecuted Leo and his wife, Lucille, who had been drifting apart before the wrenching events pulled them back together. They express their relationship in some of the show's best songs ("Leo at Work/What Am I Waiting For," "You Don't Know This Man," "All the Wasted Time"). Masterfully evoking scene and character through his beautiful, bouncy, or harrowing music, Brown depicts youthful abandon ("The Picture Show"), the city's hysteria, the tender memories of the girl's mourners ("It Don't Make Sense"), and the murder trial, including its fantasy scenes of false testimony. Parade is a powerful work that will long linger in your memory, and it's one of the most important musical theater releases of 1999. --David Horiuchi

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