Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?

[bwaybri2]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#1

Posted: 8/11/10 at 11:04pm

While I wish I could have seen it, I have never scene JRB's Parade - but have been tranfixed with the music over the course of this week.

Did he really do it?

The music is over-the-top:

Thank you -

[BwayTday]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#2

Posted: 8/11/10 at 11:06pm

Well it is suggested that he didn't. But not confirmed.

[adamgreer]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#2

Posted: 8/11/10 at 11:12pm

^Right.

Interestingly enough, they never really imply who actually did it.

[spiderdj82]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#3

Posted: 8/11/10 at 11:15pm

I think the killer's identity in the real case pretty much points to Jim Conely.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

Updated On: 8/12/10 at 11:15 PM

[adamgreer]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#4

Posted: 8/11/10 at 11:19pm

Actually, I just re-listened to part of act 2, and it's made fairly obvious that the janitor (the African-American spider mentioned) is the culprit.

[givesmevoice]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#5

Posted: 8/11/10 at 11:23pm

I'm not sure how it's been staged in other productions, but the production I saw in Boston clearly implied that Jim Conley was the culprit.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[misto625]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#6

Posted: 8/12/10 at 12:24am

I saw that same Boston production! And historically, Jim Conley was the culprit, as reported by Alonso Mann on his deathbed.

Dean: Can I tell you something? Lorraine: That depends on what it is. Dean: I think you're really really pretty. Lorraine: (after a pause) Ok, you can tell me that.

[SporkGoddess]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#7

Posted: 8/12/10 at 12:26am

If any of us knew the answer, we'd be famous. Most evidence points to Conley. However, I will say that Parade oversimplified things and made the case look much more black and white than it actually was.

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[E.Davis]

Spoiler Wanted for Parade - what happens?#8

Posted: 8/12/10 at 12:33am

I just finished a production an in the script, there is a stage direction that makes Jim Conely present at the time Mary disappears to make you question who really did it...

Also because of the Lullaby that Watson sings at the Funeral...people thought that he did it (the people at my show) i mean that is the only evidence in the show...Silly i know

"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-

[nydirector2]

Spoiler Wanted for Titanic: What happens?#9

Posted: 8/12/10 at 9:42am

Does the ship sink?

How come kids these days would rather find out everything on BWW than actually, I dunno, go to a library or simply Google the actual case.

To be completely honest, the show as a whole is not as much about the trial as it is about the relationship of the Franks. It's definitely flawed because the show starts out as a To Kill a Mockingbird type of show and ends up as an in depth look of a couple's marriage...so it's nearly two shows in one. Overall though, the point of the show is not whether or not he did it, but more of a "this tragedy happened and this is how the people involved reacted."

[tazber]

Spoiler Wanted for Titanic: What happens?#10

Posted: 8/12/10 at 10:01am

No he did not do it.

I have never understood the confusion about this.
I don't even think JRB ever intended it to be ambiguous.

....but the world goes 'round

[ghostlight2]

Spoiler Wanted for Titanic: What happens?#11

Posted: 8/12/10 at 10:15am

I guess you never saw the original, tazbar, or you wouldn't be so sure to say that. The LC version was much more ambiguous as to whether Leo was guilty or not, regardless of JRB's intentions. The Donmar and Taper versions made it fairly clear he was innocent, but never definitively. It isn't as simple as the fact of the Titanic's sinking. There is a question.

[SporkGoddess]

Spoiler Wanted for Titanic: What happens?#12

Posted: 8/12/10 at 11:15am

My issue is they really overemphasized the idea that anti-Semitism led to Frank's conviction. They also overemphasized the character attacks versus the actual testimony that indicated he had no witnesses to support his alibi that he was working in his office during the murder.

Mary Phagan Kean, Mary Phagan's great niece, still believes that Frank is guilty. The state of Georgia only pardoned him because they had failed to protect him, not because they actually thought he was innocent. Of course, most people (myself included) think he's innocent.

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!