Parade (musical)
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Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment and 1915 lynching of Jewish American Leo Fr
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The first day of the trial. Spectators were racially segregated. The stenographer can be seen next to Newt Lee, who is being questioned by prosecutor Hugh Dorsey.
Diamond and Platt (left) with First Lady Jill Biden in 2023
Ben Platt
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Benjamin Schiff Platt is an American actor and singer. The son of film and theater producer Marc Platt and philanthropist Julie Platt, he began his acting career in musical theater as a child and appe
Parade (musical)
…Parade as the gala concert presentation of its 2022/2023 season, with a benefit performance on November 1 and a run continuing through November 6, 2022. Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond played Leo and Lucille Frank. Michael Arden directed and incorporated projections and photography of the real-life trial in the…
Platt in 2019
Ben Platt and Cynthia Erivo look over a special collections display during a tour of the Library of Congress in 2023.
Platt in 2025