Broadway Satire "Slam Frank" Pretends To Be Anti-Woke — Its True Intent Is Far Darker
After going viral on right-wing social media, I assumed this was a brilliant satire on the excesses of wokeness, but boy was I wrong.
Broadway Satire “Slam Frank” Pretends To Be Anti-Woke — Its True Intent Is Far Darker
When I took my Birthright trip to Israel, I was surprised to learn that no one makes a more ghastly Holocaust joke than the IDF soldiers sworn to protect their homeland. I get it, the closer you are to the action, humor itself requires a little chutzpah. But when I told my Jewish father I was going to see Slam Frank, a new off-Broadway musical “reimagining” The Diary of Anne Frank, he didn’t find it funny at all.
Slam Frank “imagines what happens when a progressive community theater company decides that maybe now is not the time for us to center these privileged, straight, white European Jews.” Anne “Anita” Frank embraces her “Latinx” roots, adopts a “queer identity,” and tries to soften Hitler’s heart with an appeal to diversity — all in the hip-hop style of Hamilton.
After going viral on right-wing social media, I assumed this was a brilliant satire on the excesses of wokeness, but boy was I wrong. Instead, it sets the stage for a moral crusade that’s even worse than woke.
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