Broadway ‘Parade’ Star Ben Platt Responds To Antisemitic Protesters: “Ugly And Scary But A Wonderful Reminder” Of The Need For This Musical
deadline.comA small but vocally aggressive group of antisemitic protestors outside the Broadway venue housing the first preview of the revival Parade shouted slurs and decades-old accusations against the musical’s main character, Leo Frank.
Parade tells the based-on-fact story of the wrongly accused Frank, a Jewish man tried and eventually lynched in 1913 Georgia for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan.
The protesters outside the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on W. 45th Street last night resurrected some of the same accusations made against Frank in his day and against Jews yet today.
In one cellphone video of the incident, a protesters can be heard loudly telling the lines of ticketbuyers, “Even in early 1900s Blacks and whites united to hang the Jew.” Other shouts reported included “[Leo Frank is] a Jewish Pedophile” and “Learn the truth about what you’re going to see tonight.
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