Parade

WATERDALE Proudly Presents
Jason Robert Brown’s

PARADE
The American Musical Masterpiece

WATERDALE is proud to be presenting the Victorian Amateur Premiere of the Donmar Warehouse Revised Edition of ‘Parade’.

Venue:
Rivergum Theatre, Parade College
1436 Plenty Road
Bundoora, Victoria 3083

Dates:
Friday March 2nd 8:00pm
Saturday March 2nd 8:00pm
Sunday March 3rd 5:00pm (Governor’s Afternoon Tea - Twilight Show)

Thursday March 8th 8:00pm
Friday March 9th 8:00pm
Saturday March 10th 8:00pm

Tickets
$24 General, $20 Concession
To book tickets go to www.waterdale.org.au/tickets or call our Community Engagement Manager Laura Perini on 0400 212 566  (enquiries only)

Production Team
Producer: Jake D. Remmington
Director: Aimee Fraser
Assistant Director: Laura Perini
Musical Director: Ian Nisbet
Assistant Musical Director: Sophie Antoniou
Choreographer: Emma Kiely

Synopsis
The tragic, true story of the trial and lynching of a man wrongly accused of murder is brought to emotional and theatrical life by acclaimed playwright Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown, one of Broadway’s most promising young composers.

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for 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 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.

Daring, innovative and bold, PARADE won well-earned Tony® Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000. Its subject matter offers a moral lesson about the dangers of prejudice and ignorance that should not be forgotten.

Cast
Leo Frank – Tyson Legg
Lucille Frank – Jaclyn DeVincentis
Mary Phagan – Taylor Branecki
Frankie Epps – Charles E. C. Grounds
Hugh Dorsey – Dean Mitchelmore
Governor John Slaton – Mal Fawcett
Jim Conley – Djon Alexander
Tom Watson – Kristopher Brown
Britt Craig – James Terry
Judge Roan/Old Confederate Soldier – Dave Barclay
Young Confederate Soldier – Josh Peterson
Luther Z. Rosser – Brendan Hyde
Mrs. Phagan – Maxine Montgomery
Iola Stover – Sarah Cuthbert
Monteen – Hannah Bailey
Essie – Tayla Podesta-Muir
Minola ‘Minnie’ McKnight – Emily-Rose Carr
Newt Lee – Kris Wardhana
Sally Slaton – Sarah Kiely
Lizzie Phagan – Angharad Griffiths
Angela – Katie Lewis
Riley – Yasmin Ismail
Detective Starnes - Nick Troitzky-Pelletier
Officer Ivey  - Andrew Davy
Mr. Peavy – Sean Walpole

Brad Murphy
Elizabeth Carr
Emma Bleazby
Jack Turner
Jessica La Mari
Karla Quadara
Kristen Field
Laura Ghiotti
Manda Flannery
Mardi Cuthbert
Melissa Kahraman
Nicholas Barca
Nicole Kiely
Rachel Edwards
Rebecca Muratore
Shae O’Reilly
Simone Braid