'Parade' on Broadway review: the new revival, which stars Ben Platt in the title role, is a more of an explicit indictment of Southern Republicans.
The company of"Parade" on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York.
Which makes it all the more strange that Platt offers a beautifully sung but less than empathetic performance in the leading role. So much so, in fact, that I wondered if this hugely talented Broadway star had allowed all of the noise out there to get to him.There’s no question that Brown’s incarnation of Frank, a Brooklyn transfer and the manager of an Atlanta pencil factory, is a troubled man, a lousy communicator who was often remote, imperious and self-involved.
Platt sounds spectacular and nothing he does feels fake. Yet his Leo Frank seems much the same at the end of the show at the beginning, and just as remote. Perhaps that’s indicative of the political shift of the moment, where any kind of change in such a character risks being seen as his capitulation to the forces of intolerance, even though I think book writer Alfred Uhry and Brown intended exactly the opposite.
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