A video posted on Twitter shows anti-Semitic protesters, calling themselves the National Socialist Movement, shouting hateful rhetoric. “You want the truth about who you’re going to see tonight,” shouted one of the group members. “You pay $300 to go worship a pedophile, you might as well know what you’re talking about.” “Romanticizing pedophiles, wow, Leo Frank,” shouted another. Other networks reported that members of the movement chanted, “Leo Frank is a Jewish pedophile” while others held a banner reading “Leo Frankli was a pedophile.”
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The musical’s producers released a statement condemning the incident: “If there is any doubt left out there about the urgency of telling this story at this moment in history, the humiliation on display tonight should put an end to it,” the producers said in a statement to People.