THE TRUE STORY OF PARADE

Admission to this event is free; however, registration is required for entry. Complimentary refreshments and light appetizers will be provided!

In anticipation of the Tony Award–winning musical PARADE coming to Belk Theater this March, please join Blumenthal Arts and the Shalom Park DEI Committee for a FREE moderated discussion with Rabbi Becca Diamond and Broadway producer Erica Lynn Schwartz about the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager charged with a heinous crime in 1913 Atlanta.

The program will begin with a study session that explores how the true story that inspired the musical influenced Jewish views about their own place in the racial hierarchy of America in the Jim Crow period, followed by a Q&A.

Rabbi Becca Diamond is a co-rabbi of Temple Kol Tikvah of Lake Norman. She was ordained from the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Her rabbinical thesis is titled “Barbarism, Pogroms, and Lawlessness: The Jewish Response to Lynching and Race Riots in the Jim Crow Era.”

Erica Lynn Schwartz is a multiple Tony Award–winning Broadway producer: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, David Byrne’s American Utopia, and Parade, amongst many others. Erica is vice president of theatrical programming for ATG Entertainment.