Jason Robert Brown "PARADE" Bertie Carvel ("Matilda") Donmar 2007 London Flyer

Description

This is a beautiful advertising handbill (flyer) promoting the Original West End production of the ALFRED UHRY and JASON ROBERT BROWN musical "PARADE" at the Donmar Warehouse in London. (The Original Broadway production opened December 17th, 1998 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City and ran for 85 performances. The London production opened September 14th, 2007 and ran for a limited engagement of ten weeks.) ..... The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager
Leo Frank
,
who was accused and convicted of
raping
and murdering a thirteen year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused some
antisemitic
tensions in
Atlanta,
Georgia
.
When Frank's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by the departing
Governor of Georgia
,
John M. Slaton
due
to his detailed review of over 10,000 pages of testimony and possible problems with the trial,
Leo Frank
was transferred to a
prison
in
Milledgeville, Georgia
,
where a
lynching
party seized and kidnapped him. Frank was taken to Phagan's hometown of
Marietta, Georgia
,
where he was
hanged
from an oak tree ..... The musical starred BERTIE CARVEL (in his musical theatre debut) as "Leo Frank" and LARA PULVER as "Lucille Frank" and featured HELEN ANKER, MARK BONMAR, NORMAN BOWMAN, SHAUN ESCOFFERY, JOANNA KIRKLAND, GARY MILNER, STEVEN PAGE, MALINDA PARRIS, STUART MATTHEW PRICE, ZOE RAINEY, CELIA MEI RUBIN, STEPHEN WEBB and JAYNE WISENER ..... CREDITS: Book by ALFRED UHRY; Music and Lyrics by JASON ROBERT BROWN ("Parade", "Songs for a New World", "The Last 5 Years", "Urban Cowboy", "13"
, "The Bridges of Madison County", "Honeymoon in Vegas"
); Co-Conceived by HAROLD PRINCE; Sets and Costumes designed by CHRISTOPHER ORAM; Directed and Choreographed by ROB ASHFORD; Produced by the DONMAR WAREHOUSE ..... DETAILS: Advertising handbills (heralds) were distributed or inserted into the playbills of other productions to help generate ticket sales for upcoming shows and events. This single page, two-sided handbill measures 3 7/8" X 8 1/4" inches, is printed on a card stock and includes production and cast credits on the front and a brief synopsis and ticket prices on the backside ..... CONDITION: This rare handbill is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.