Product Description

We're proud to present the vocal selections for Jason Robert Brown's award-winning musical (1999 Tony for Best Original Score, Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best New Musical), which is based on the actual case of Leo Frank, a Jewish man falsely accused of killing a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta in 1913. This edition features a detailed plot synopsis, a note from the composer, a biography of Brown, and 12 piano/vocal selections edited by the composer: Big News * Do It Alone * Come Up to My Office * It's Hard to Speak My Heart * My Child Will Forgive Me * Pretty Music * That's What He Said * What Am I Waiting For? * You Don't Know This Man * more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #308843 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 104 pages

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Musical
This musical is nearly flawless. I have analyzed this show to great detail and I find it near-perfect. I love Jason Robert Brown (lyrics and music) - he's incredibly talented. As for Harold Prince, the director, he is a the winner of several Tony's, and Alfred Uhrly is just amazing as always, winning awards in several media categories. I recommend this musical to anyone who wants to be challenged musically and moved emotionally. This musical pushes the theatre up to new levels of excellence, which should be every composer's/director's goal.

Amazing score, difficult vocal score
Parade is one of the most auspicious debuts by a theatre composer in recent memory. Jason Robert Brown, then in his mid-20s, joined legendary 20-time Tony-winning producer-director Harold Prince and Tony-, Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning playwright Alfred Uhry for a musical about a Jewish man living in Atlanta in 1915 who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a young girl. The result was a critical success and one of the finest theatre scores I've ever heard. I anxiously awaited the release of this score so that I could play the songs and sing the moving melodies at home. The only problem is that Brown is such a talented "rock pianist" (think Jerry Lee Lewis meets Sondheim) that his piano parts are almost unplayable by amateurs such as myself. My advice: buy this book, and get someone very talented to play it for you.

Great Music!
JRB is one of my heroes! He did an awesome job adapting the story of Leo Frank to music quite fitting of the South while adding his usual Jewish tinge to it. I love 'All the Wasted Time'- one of the best musical theatre duets in the past 50 years, as well as 'This is Not Over Yet'- a tour de force piece of work. Pretty much everything in this book is wonderful. It will definitely take either an extremely talented classical pianist and/or a strong reader in chords and feel for the songs to play a lot of these accompaniment parts, but they are some of the most enjoyable songs to play. My only reason I am giving the songbook 4 stars is because it doesn't have 'There is A Fount/God This Don't Make Sense' in here. I figured out most of it by ear with the cd, but still it would have been nice to have included this heartfelt eulogy to Mary Phagan in here. Oh well, I guess you can't get them all. Buy this book and enjoy!