The most incendiary musical comedy of 2025 will advance to the off-Broadway Orpheum Theatre in October, and its creators are marking the show’s return with, not surprisingly, two provocative events.
The box office for Slam Frank, which reimagines Anne Frank’s story through an “intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens,” according to the producers, opens on June 12, the birthday of the Jewish teen whose diary of her family’s life hiding from the Nazis became a classic of Holocaust literature.
The following week, on June 19 — Juneteenth — the show’s producers will host what they are calling “Off-Broadway’s First Annual Official Belated Pro-Diversity, Pre-Julyteenth, Cismasc-Affirming, Anti-Capitalist, LatinX, Anne Frank Fiesta de Quinceañera” at the Orpheum on Second Avenue in Manhattan’s East Village.
Theatergoers who attend the event, which begins at 5 p.m., will have the opportunity to purchase select seats for $36 and remaining seats — which go for $50-$140, at a $36 discount. (A rep for the show explains that 36 is a factor of 18, which in Hebrew numerology symbolizes life.) Special guests and performances are also promised.
Directed by Sam LaFrage, previews of Slam Frank will begin on Sept. 17, the one-year anniversary of the show’s developmental run at The Asylum in Midtown. The musical officially opens Oct. 24 and will continue through Nov. 20.
