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‘Anne Frank, Superstar’? A satirical musical reimagines the Holocaust victim as a symbol of wokeness.

JL;DR SUMMARY Slam Frank, a satirical musical co-created by Jewish artists Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky, reimagines Anne Frank as a pansexual Latinx girl in a hip-hop style show that explores and mocks the extremes of identity politics. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustAnne FrankJewish HumorMusicalMel BrooksIdentity PoliticsSatireWokenessAndrew FoxJoel Sinensky

Places mentioned

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"The pair have built out a cast of characters based on the real-life Jews who hid in the Secret Annex in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam."
New York, United States
"Performances of Slam Frank begin Sept. 17 at Asylum NYC (123 E 24th St.)."

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