Nazis Harass Audience Outside Broadway Musical

The Daily Beast reports:

Broadway star Ben Platt condemned “really disgusting” neo-Nazi protesters “spreading evil” who heckled theatergoers on Tuesday evening in line to see the first preview performance of the musical, Parade.

The show, a Broadway transfer from the Encores! concert series, is based on the true story of a Jewish factory superintendent, Leo Frank, who was falsely convicted of killing 13-year-old employee Mary Phagan in 1913, and who was kidnapped from prison and lynched two years later.

Platt, who won Tony, Emmy, and Grammy awards for playing the title role in Dear Evan Hansen, plays Frank in Parade.

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The National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi hate group, is protesting outside of the Broadway revival of “Parade,” stating that Leo Frank, the subject of the musical, was a pedophile. pic.twitter.com/wbGMjRubZL

— Jake Wasserman (@jacobhwasserman) February 22, 2023

Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia, was murdered by a lynch mob in 1915 after being falsely convicted for the murder of a 13 year-old girl, Mary Phagan.https://t.co/ZfuZHYuecS

— Jake Wasserman (@jacobhwasserman) February 22, 2023

The murder led to the creation of the ADL, and the neo-Nazis in the theater district tonight are perpetuating the very same lies that began Frank’s story to begin with.

— Jake Wasserman (@jacobhwasserman) February 22, 2023

More about the neo-Nazis, from the @ADL: https://t.co/DZvNdQgtBh

— Jake Wasserman (@jacobhwasserman) February 22, 2023

These are the flyers they’re handing out with the literal SS logo on it pic.twitter.com/IExeunwUo9

— Talia Escobedo (@taliaescbdo) February 22, 2023

Just to thread this through for interested readers, their flyer makes mention of GoyimTV, the streaming platform of the antisemitic group the Goyim Defense League, whose literature was just implicated in the antisemitic shootings in LA earlier this week: https://t.co/jIhypBzvhl

— Jake Wasserman (@jacobhwasserman) February 22, 2023

At the first preview of Parade on Broadway @paradebway and there is a absolutely wild protest outside. Only filmed a second because it was genuinely scary. They were insulting patrons as they walked in. #Parade #Broadway pic.twitter.com/kP3iN3eyGS

— Sean O'Connor (@NewSeanO) February 22, 2023

Neo-Nazis at #Parade ??? @BroadwayWorld @OnstageBlog @NYDailyNews @NYCMayor @nytimes @theJCPA pic.twitter.com/6tA3XH9CKe

— sad thespian ? (@sad_thespian) February 22, 2023