abducted from jail and lynched. Previews began on Tuesday for the revival show, which officially opens on March 16.A video posted on Twitter by the Forward’s engagement editor Jake Wasserman shows anti-Semitic protesters, who call themselves the National Socialist Movement, shouting hateful rhetoric.“You want the truth about who you’re going to see tonight,” shouted one of the group members. “You’re paying $300 to go f – – king worship a pedophile, you might as well know what you’re talking about.”“Romanticizing pedophiles, wow, Leo Frank,” shouted another.Other outlets reported that members chanted, “[Leo Frank is] a Jewish pedophile” while others held a banner reading “Leo Frankly was a pedo.”Wasserman also retweeted a photo of the flyers that protesters handed out, slamming the Anti-Defamation League that they allege was “established in 1913 to protect a Jewish child murdering pedophile Leo Frank.”Platt, 29, took to Instagram to call out the protesters.“I got offstage and was looking at social media, and, naturally, the news of the fact that there were some protesters at our show has spread a lot, and that has kind of [been] the stamp on the evening, in terms of the public perception of the evening,” said Platt. “For those who don’t know, there were a few neo-Nazi protesters from a really disgusting group outside of the theater, bothering some of our patrons on their way in and saying anti-Semitic things about Leo Frank, who the show is about, and just spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric that led to this whole story in the first place,” continued Platt.
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