“We must reexamine our past or else we repeat it.”Īrden hopes his direction has focuses on the intimacy of the marriage, and he has stripped the musical down, without a lot of set design and without a heavy hand. “It is rare when we get an opportunity to go to the theater and truly be challenged to reflect on our own shortcomings in this way and kind of stir up the darkness of our past,” he says. “I think it’s an important message when you’re representing anyone who’s been oppressed or victimized, let alone a real person, to say that just because somebody isn’t perfect and entirely virtuous, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t deserving of justice and truth.”Īrden grew up in Midland, Texas, listening to Broadway cast albums and was “just transported by the score” of “Parade.” He watched a video capture of the original show and saw a version mounted by the Donmar Warehouse in 2007. “There’s some moral challenge and ambiguity,” says Platt. What viewers will find is a complex portrayal of Frank, a fussy, often unpleasant man who dislikes the South and who complains about the food when he is first thrown in jail. “I’m hopeful that this will be an opportunity for those who didn’t already appreciate it, to find it and for it to get some of the due that it maybe should have gotten in the first place,” Platt says. Micaela Diamond stars here as Lucille, and it is the first time Jewish actors have led a professional production of “Parade” of this scale. “There’s a lot of gray in the show, and it’s also a piece that holds racism and anti-Semitism in the same conversation and highlights that they are both products, particularly in America, of the same system of white supremacy.”īehind the legal drama, there is a second - the story of two people, Frank and his wife, Lucille, whose relationship gets stronger as their lives get more difficult. “I think maybe people just weren’t ready to hear it at that point,” he says. It was mostly well-received by critics in 1998 when it first arrived - and later won Tonys for best book and score - but closed within a few months, despite a story by “Driving Miss Daisy” writer Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by multiple Tony-winner Jason Robert Brown. Platt calls “Parade” a “hidden gem” in musical theater and grew up listening to its songs. The new musical opens March 16 at at the Bernard B. This is Platt’s first return to Broadway since his star-making turn in “Dear Evan Hansen,” which earned him a Tony and a Grammy and propelled his career to TV shows like “The Politician” and a record deal with Atlantic Records. “I think everybody could feel very palpably that this was the piece for right in this very moment and that there was really a reason to be doing it.” The advice has been extremely valuable to my career and just being able to listen and absorb what they have learned so far in the field has helped me grow over the past 2 ½ months.“I think both in terms of specifically anti-Semitism and in terms of just the horrors of social media and online mob mentality, it feels all too contemporary,” Platt says. The fact this family of actors have accepted my quirkiness and helped me learn the ropes has meant so much to me. I knew I had a lot of catching up to do being an engineer, but I had no idea how much I had to learn in a short span. I guess you can say there is a reason Family makes it into the title for this particular show.īeing that this is my first professional show outside of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta and The Lyric Studio, I have learned so much from watching everyone in The Addams Family. ![]() This cast is incredible and what makes this even more enjoyable for me is that fact we are a family. ![]() Rush rush to get your tickets for the final two weeks of The Addams Family at OnStage Atlanta! This show has had a completely sold out house FOUR WEEKS in a row and it looks these next two weeks are going to be the same exact story.
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