Neo-Nazis disrupt the opening of the Broadway show “Parade” about a Jew who was unfairly lynched

The new Broadway revival is still in preview, and there’s already a lot of drama in it – although, unfortunately, this drama is about what happens outside of the theater, not what happens on stage.

Producers and the Parade star denounce anti-Semitism after a group of neo-Nazi demonstrators harassed theatergoers who lined up for a performance on Tuesday. It is reported that someone who tried to film the demonstrators on video had his phone taken away and thrown out into the street.

One viewer posted a video of a hate-filled demonstration outside the Bernard Jacobs Theater on West 45th Street and described moments of fear.

“I know that they have the right to protest, but it still worries me,” said Elena Kaplan.

Those who demonstrated were shouting, carrying banners and handing out flyers claiming that the show was glorifying pedophilia.

Protesters have targeted Parade, a musical about the true story of Leo Frank, a Jew who was lynched in 1915 after he was wrongfully convicted of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl. A later legal review confirmed that Frank had been wrongfully charged.

“No one should lose sight of the irony that these anti-Semitic extremists chose to protest against a play that details the true story of the lynching of an innocent Jew by an anti-Semitic mob, and used it as an opportunity to spread conspiracy and hate theories,” the post reads. Anti-Defamation League.

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One woman, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, was given another reason by the protesters to support the production.

“I was going to get them anyway, but it’s also my form of protest to say that you can’t push me out of my country,” Nina Mogilnik said. “It’s hard to digest.”

Tony Award winner Ben Platt stars in the production and said in a video posted to Instagram that “it was definitely very ugly and scary, but it’s a great reminder of why we’re telling this story and how powerful art and theater”.

The show’s producers went on to state that “if there is any doubt about the urgency of telling this story at this moment in history, the show of meanness (on Tuesday night) should dispel them.”

NYPD officers were at the scene Tuesday evening, but it was unclear if they would have special patrols again on Wednesday.