'Parade' Tells Story of Infamous Injustice In Atlanta Through Haunting Score

'Parade' Tells Story of Infamous Injustice In Atlanta Through Haunting Score

A Tony-winning musical that tells the tragic, frustrating story about a Jewish man who was likely wrongly accused of murder and convicted on flimsy evidence in the Jim Crow South has just landed at SF's Orpheum Theater.Complicated, historic tragedies like the story of Leo Frank are usually the stuff of opera, or of serious, non-musical theater. But the 1998 musical Parade, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison Count…