Parade: Tony Award-Winning Musical from Youth Musical Theater Company
The Julia Morgan Theater, formerly Julia Morgan Center for the Arts (2640 College Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Parade have expired.
The last date listed for Parade was Sunday March 6, 2011 / 2:00pm.
3 Goldstar Member Reviews
helen schneider
This production was amazing--one would have thought they sere seeing a Broadway show. It was courageous to mount such an intense story, but these kids pulled it off. Both the singing and acting were top notch; the orchestra's fine playing added to the show. Altogether definitely a 5-star (if not more).Written on Mar 07 2011
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A very fine show. Well acted as well as sung. It was great to hear the full orchestra (!) with some very interesting music. I hadn't heard of this show and didn't expect it to be so good. Clear story line. Very Interesting and nuanced subject matter, and with really effective performances by the young cast.Written on Feb 27 2011
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I highly recommend going to see Parade. We went with our 9 and 11 year old and all found it very moving. It fact we are still talking about it a day later. The great cast and excellent live music really brought this fast-paced story alive in all its subtlety.Written on Feb 26 2011
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More Information About Parade
Website
http://www.ymtcberkeley.org/parade
Quotes & Highlights
- Download the Youth Musical Theater Company's Parade study guide.
- There is a "talk back" symposium following the February 27 show, with actors, directors, and the Education Director of the SF chapter of the Anti-Defamation League.
Description
Winner of 2 Tony awards and 6 Drama Desk awards, Parade dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager, Leo Frank, who was falsely convicted of murdering a thirteen-year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, fueled by political ambition and sensationalized by the media, aroused anti-Semitic tensions in Atlanta, Georgia.
Filled with beautiful and evocative music, Parade is at once a riveting murder mystery, a gripping courtroom drama, a moving love story, a profile in courage and a searing social commentary. The Leo Frank trial and subsequent lynching gave rise to both the Ku Klux Klan (known at the time as the Knights of Mary Phagan), as well as the Anti-Defamation League.
Book by acclaimed playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy), and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, one of Broadway’s most exciting composers (Songs For A New World, The Last Five Years), Parade brings this defining event in American history to life, and YMTC is thrilled to bring it to Berkeley.
About the Ticket Supplier: Youth Musical Theater Company
YMTC (Youth Musical Theater Company) is a Berkeley-based company that provides exceptional musical theater training and performance opportunities to passionate, talented young people. In year-round, rigorous programming including intensive workshops, small-scale performances, and three fully mounted musical productions, students from the seventh grade up to the university level, work under the guidance of professional musicians, designers, and theater artists from around the Bay Area.