There’s a shadow hanging over the 2023 Tony Awards, and we don’t just mean the WGA strike, which nearly derailed Broadway’s biggest night. In a Broadway season boasting three nonbinary actors in major musical roles, the Tonys continue to require performers to submit themselves in either of the gendered actor and actress categories.
Both Some Like It Hot’s J. Harrison Ghee and Shucked’s Alex Newell are frontrunners in the categories they selected, while Justin David Sullivan, who would have been eligible in one of the featured performer categories for & Juliet, removed themselves from consideration early in the season. This year, the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, which recognize both Broadway and Off Broadway productions, shed their gendered performance categories, allowing recent wins at both ceremonies for Ghee and Newell in all-gender fields.
If Ghee and Newell repeat those victories at the Tonys, it’ll...
Both Some Like It Hot’s J. Harrison Ghee and Shucked’s Alex Newell are frontrunners in the categories they selected, while Justin David Sullivan, who would have been eligible in one of the featured performer categories for & Juliet, removed themselves from consideration early in the season. This year, the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, which recognize both Broadway and Off Broadway productions, shed their gendered performance categories, allowing recent wins at both ceremonies for Ghee and Newell in all-gender fields.
If Ghee and Newell repeat those victories at the Tonys, it’ll...
- 6/7/2023
- by Dan Rubins
- Slant Magazine
Connor Dyer played Leo Frank in Vivo D'Arte's promenade production of Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award-winning musical Parade at the world's oldest working paper factory, the Frogmore Paper Mill.
- 9/22/2017
- by Guest Blog: Connor Dyer
- BroadwayWorld.com
Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's 1998 Tony Award-winning musical Parade, based on the infamous trial and lynching of Leo Frank, is set to be professionally staged at the world's oldest working paper factory this month.
- 9/7/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's 1998 Tony Award-winning musical Parade, based on the infamous trial and lynching of Leo Frank, is set to be professionally staged at the world's oldest working paper factory this September.
- 7/17/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Did Jew Eat Yet?
That’s not my line above; it’s from Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall. Allen told his friend he heard a television exec ask him that in a meeting. His friend said he was paranoid.
August 1991
In the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a Jewish man accidentally killed one black child and injured another when he lost control of his car. Black residents surrounded and beat the driver. The news reported everywhere. What was not reported is the act of an unidentified black man who led a Jewish passenger to safety.
A privately run Jewish ambulance responded and those paramedics began attending to the surviving child stilled pinned under the car. When an NYC-operated ambulance arrived, the scene coordinator instructed the Jewish team to evacuate the Jewish driver from the accident for his safety.
There was a police car already on the scene. Why didn...
That’s not my line above; it’s from Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall. Allen told his friend he heard a television exec ask him that in a meeting. His friend said he was paranoid.
August 1991
In the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a Jewish man accidentally killed one black child and injured another when he lost control of his car. Black residents surrounded and beat the driver. The news reported everywhere. What was not reported is the act of an unidentified black man who led a Jewish passenger to safety.
A privately run Jewish ambulance responded and those paramedics began attending to the surviving child stilled pinned under the car. When an NYC-operated ambulance arrived, the scene coordinator instructed the Jewish team to evacuate the Jewish driver from the accident for his safety.
There was a police car already on the scene. Why didn...
- 11/8/2016
- by Michael Davis
- Comicmix.com
Today in 1998, Parade opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 85 performances. Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The production was directed by Harold Prince and starred Brent Carver as Leo Frank, Carolee Carmello as Lucille Frank, and Christy Carlson Romano as Mary Phagan.The musical won Tony Awards for best book and best score out of nine nominations and six Drama Desk Awards. The show has enjoyed a U.S. national tour and numerous professional and amateur productions in both the U.S. and abroad.
- 12/17/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday Brent Carver Carver is best known for his performances on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman as Molina, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1993, Fiddler on the Roof, and Parade as Leo Frank. Carver originated the role of Gandalf in the Toronto stage production of The Lord of the Rings and has appeared in several Soulpepper Theatre Company productions such as The Wild Duck, Don Carlos and the Pirate King in the 1985 production of The Pirates of Penzance.
- 11/17/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1998, Parade opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 85 performances. Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The production was directed by Harold Prince and starred Brent Carver as Leo Frank, Carolee Carmello as Lucille Frank, and Christy Carlson Romano as Mary Phagan.The musical won Tony Awards for best book and best score out of nine nominations and six Drama Desk Awards. The show has enjoyed a U.S. national tour and numerous professional and amateur productions in both the U.S. and abroad.
- 12/17/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Manhattan Concert Productions just announced television, film and Broadway star, Jeremy Jordan, has joined the cast of a one night only concert performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Parade, on February 16, 2015, at 800 p.m. Est at Avery Fisher Hall Lincoln Center. Jordan will join the cast as Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jewish factory manager accused and convicted of killing a thirteen-yearold employee in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913. Three-time Tony Award winner and original composer, Jason Robert Brown, will conduct this star-studded cast and full chorus alongside Oliver Award nominee Gary Griffin as Director and Tom Murray as Music Supervisor.
- 12/16/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday Brent Carver Carver is best known for his performances on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman as Molina, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1993, Fiddler on the Roof, and Parade as Leo Frank. Carver originated the role of Gandalf in the Toronto stage production of The Lord of the Rings and has appeared in several Soulpepper Theatre Company productions such as The Wild Duck, Don Carlos and the Pirate King in the 1985 production of The Pirates of Penzance.
- 11/17/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1998, Parade opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 85 performances. Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The production was directed by Harold Prince and starred Brent Carver as Leo Frank, Carolee Carmello as Lucille Frank, and Christy Carlson Romano as Mary Phagan.The musical won Tony Awards for best book and best score out of nine nominations and six Drama Desk Awards. The show has enjoyed a U.S. national tour and numerous professional and amateur productions in both the U.S. and abroad.
- 12/17/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday Brent Carver Carver is best known for his performances on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman as Molina, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1993, Fiddler on the Roof, and Parade as Leo Frank. Carver originated the role of Gandalf in the Toronto stage production of The Lord of the Rings and has appeared in several Soulpepper Theatre Company productions such as The Wild Duck, Don Carlos and the Pirate King in the 1985 production of The Pirates of Penzance.
- 11/17/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Gallery Players, now in its 46th season, will start off the New Year with Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's Parade, running January 26 to February 17, 2013. Tony Award winner for Best Book and Best Score in 1999, Parade is based on the true events of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish man from Brooklyn who runs a pencil factory in Marietta, Georgia. Frank is accused of the murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher, determined district attorney and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the crime.Check out a behind the scenes look at the show with the cast and...
- 1/30/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Gallery Players, now in its 46th season, will start off the New Year with Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's Parade, running January 26 to February 17, 2013. Tony Award winner for Best Book and Best Score in 1999, Parade is based on the true events of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish man from Brooklyn who runs a pencil factory in Marietta, Georgia. Frank is accused of the murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher, determined district attorney and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the crime.
- 1/18/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1998, Parade opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 85 performances. Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The production was directed by Harold Prince and starred Brent Carver as Leo Frank, Carolee Carmello as Lucille Frank, and Christy Carlson Romano as Mary Phagan.The musical won Tony Awards for best book and best score out of nine nominations and six Drama Desk Awards. The show has enjoyed a U.S. national tour and numerous professional and amateur productions in both the U.S. and abroad.
- 12/17/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday Brent Carver Carver is best known for his performances on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman as Molina, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1993, Fiddler on the Roof, and Parade as Leo Frank. Carver originated the role of Gandalf in the Toronto stage production of The Lord of the Rings and has appeared in several Soulpepper Theatre Company productions such as The Wild Duck, Don Carlos and the Pirate King in the 1985 production of The Pirates of Penzance.
- 11/17/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
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