Cirillo Summer Theater Presents - Parade

Cirillo Summer Theater 

In 2011, the senior division of the Cirillo Summer Theatre will present the musical, Parade.  This 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 (“Driving Miss Daisy”) and Jason Robert Brown, one of Broadway’s most promising young composers (“Songs For A New World,” "The Last Five Years," and "Thirteen"). 

 The show dates are August 5th, 6th, 11th, 12th, and 13th at 7:30 P.M. and August 7th at 2:00 P.M. at the L.P. Wilson Community Center, 599 Matianuck Ave, Windsor, CT 06095, phone number is 860-285-1990. Tickets will be sold at the door for general admission for $12.00 for Adults and $10.00 for children under 12 and seniors.  Also for more information you can contact our director, Susan Vinick at 860-643-6446 or  email  her  at Suejvin@cox.net.          
          
The story of "Parade" - 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.

The show won several Drama Desk awards and two Tony awards (for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score) in 1999.  In 2007, the show was revised and produced in London and in CA.  We are the first youth theatre organization in CT to get the non-professional rights to the show.