Parade returns to Broadway next month starring Tony Award winner Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, and the full cast joining them has been announced.
Directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Michael Arden, Platt and Diamond will lead a 33-person cast that features Alex Joseph Grayson as Jim Conley, Tony Award nominee Sean Allan Krill as Governor Slaton, Tony Award nominee Howard McGillin as Old Soldier/Judge Roan, and Paul Alexander Nolan as Hugh Dorsey. They will be joined by Jay Armstrong Johnson as Britt Craig, Kelli Barrett as Mrs. Phagan, Courtnee Carter as Angela, Eddie Cooper as Newt Lee, Erin Rose Doyle as Mary Phagan, Tony Award nominee Manoel Felciano as Tom Watson, Danielle Lee Greaves as Minnie McKnight, Douglas Lyons as Riley, and Jake Pedersen as Frankie Epps.
The cast is completed by Florrie Bagel as Nurse, Stacie Bono as Sally Slaton, Max Chernin as Mr. Turner, Emily Rose DeMartino as Essie & Others, Christopher Gurr as Luther Rosser/Mr. Peavy, Beth Kirkpatrick as Nina Formby, Ashlyn Maddox as Monteen & Others, Sophia Manicone as Iola Stover, William Michals as Detective Starnes, Jackson Teeley as Officer Ivey, and Charlie Webb as Young Soldier.
The swings for Parade will be Harry Bouvy, Tanner Callicutt, Bailee Endebrock, Caroline Fairweather, Prentiss E. Mouton, and Aurelia Williams. Ryan Vona will be the standby for Leo Frank.
Parade, with a book by two-time Tony Award winner, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Academy Award winner Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by three-time Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, and co-conceived by 21-time Tony Award-winning legend Harold Prince, will begin performances February 21, 2023, ahead of an official opening March 16, 2023, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The strictly limited engagement will play through Sunday, August 6 only. Tickets are now on sale.
