Ben Platt Denounces Anti-Semitic Protesters at ‘Parade’ on Broadway
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Ben Platt is speaking out against the anti-semitic protestors who gathered outside the first preview performance of Broadway’s revival of “Parade,” a musical about the true story of the false conviction and lynching of a Jewish man in 1915. “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 antisemitic things about Leo Frank, who the show is about, and just spreading antisemitic rhetoric that led to this whole story in the first place,” Platt said on Instagram.
In a video circulated on Twitter, a member of the neo-Nazi group The National Socialist Movement is seen asking people outside the Broadway’s Bernard B.
Jacobs Theatre, “You want the truth about who you’re going to see tonight? You’re paying $300 to go fucking worship a pedophile, you might as well know what you’re talking about.” The National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi hate group, is protesting outside of the Broadway revival of “Parade,” stating that Leo Frank, the subject of the musical, was a pedophile.
pic.twitter.com/wbGMjRubZL Platt thanked the theater workers for keeping audiences and show members “super safe and secure.” He says the “vileness on display” amplifies the urgency in the musical’s message. “Parade” dramatizes the life and death of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory owner who was falsely convicted of raping and murdering of his 13-year-old employee Mary Phagan.
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