On February 21, as patrons lined up for the premiere preview performance of the Broadway revival procession– A musical about the true story of the false denunciation and murder of a Jewish man named Leo Frank in 1915 – Members of the far-right neo-Nazi movement protest outside the Jacobs Theatre. Individuals carried signs with handwritten hate speech, shouted at theatergoers and attempted to give out antisemitic fliers to those lining up to see the show.
It was a satirical display of anti-Semitism given that procession The musical is an indictment of hate. procession, a musical written by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Urey, chronicles the life and tragic death of Frank, who was a Jewish factory manager living in Georgia in the early 1900s. He was falsely convicted of killing 13-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. But Frank is then murdered by an angry white mob. After Frank’s death, it is revealed that Phagan was murdered by Jim Conley, another factory worker. Frank has since been exonerated.
The far-right white supremacist group, known as the “National Socialist Movement”, protested the show on the basis of Frank’s innocence. Their posts also described their opposition to the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit civil rights group that helps victims of anti-Semitic allegations. The League was founded over a century ago in response to Frank’s murder.
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