Leo Frank On Broadway ?: Pushing The Zionist Agenda: Leo Frank Musical-Comedy,' Parade,' opens during the middle of the Clampdown. Coincidence?
Opinion to follow.... I'm also writing a Leo Frank Rock Opera. I'm almost done. Plus a music video shoutout to the Anti- Defamation League ,celebrating 'Leo Frank on Broadway!' .
A Musical -Comedy
Parade: An unfinished review of the short-run broadway musical from 1998.
Parade is a musical stage production about the trial and lynching of Leo Frank in 1915. The play opens with the civil war some forty years before 13-year-old Mary Phagan’s murder in Atlanta. Leo Frank is introduced as a rather pious and prudish Jew. A bookish, isolated, conservative, thrown into a strange and dangerous foreign land.
Leo Frank can’t comprehend the backward people surrounding him and gets caught up in a Kafkaesque tragedy where he becomes the victim of the South’s pent up hostility and a wide ranging anti-Semitic conspiracy to frame the innocent Leo for young Mary Phagan’s sexual assault and murder.
The author writes verse like…. “these people make me tense, I live in fear that they’ll start a conversation” (truly frightening stuff), these men belong in the zoos, it’s like they’ve never joined civilization “(nice rhyme), and even fellow Jews are suspect to Frank. “The Jews are not like Jews. I thought Jews were Jews, but I was wrong …“
This wonderful musical is an absurd and muddled attempt to recreate the feeling of oppression and culture war from the opening scene. Frank is portrayed as the hardworking, well meaning, but the ultimately alienated Yankee victim. His character in constant turmoil, and in Leo Frank’s’ paranoid world, even” Jews, are not like Jews”.
We are led to believe that Leo’s perky , sexually repressed, wife Lucille, preferring him to say “howdy, “instead of “shalom, “causes Frank great duress.
Workaholic Frank appears too serious, emotionally removed, and busy, to knock up his blushing, horny, and ever patient wife, Lucille. The randy Mrs. Frank goes so far as to accuse the sexually prudish Leo of blushing when Lucille mentions sex (in a Biblical context no less). Lucille’s character uses the word “procreate, procreate, procreate “. It’s made painfully clear that Mrs Frank wants a baby now ,but Leo is too distracted, asexual, and busy at the factory creating a safe nest to get the job done (between fantasizing about being back home to Brooklyn).
(Above; PARADE. “Hands off the merchandise!” In this wonderfully twisted, comic, fantasy- musical, a prudish and conservative Leo Frank, wards off his wife’s persistant sexual advances. Photo The Wallace Buice Theatre Company. YouTube.)
The author implies that when arrested, Leo Frank kept a Kosher diet. Frank’s Temple was a turn of the century, reform, Jewish congregation. Non religious, and certainly non- kosher. The author does his or her best to make Leo Frank seem more like a character out of the musical,Fiddler on the Roof. Kvetching about” parades on Yontif (a Yiddish word for holiday).”At least the Frank character didn’t sing “If I were a rich man. “
The premise became so ridiculous, I couldn’t continue on… C+ Highly recommended piece of Hasbara.
(Damn, the Bee Gee’s rocked.)
Until next time.
God bless all.
Cobb County Bureau Chief/NWO Watchdog,
Kevin H.
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