How Slam Frank Turned Internet Discourse Into a Provocative Off-Broadway Musical

Дата публикации: 01-10-2026 18:46:28

Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky (Photo: Paul Wontorek)
There are musicals that gently welcome audiences into their worlds, and then there is Slam Frank. Now playing off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre, the gleefully provocative comedy imagines what might happen if a hyper-progressive theater company decided Anne Frank’s story needed a hip-hop makeover for the modern age. Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek met with the cast and creative team to unpack the musical that wants audiences laughing, squirming and preferably arguing about it afterward.
The origins of Slam Frank began with a very real piece of internet discourse. Composer and lyricist Andrew Fox traces the musical’s origin to a 2022 Twitter debate over whether Anne Frank had ever acknowledged her privilege, a conversation so surreal that it sparked an equally surreal theatrical question in his mind. He eventually brought the idea to longtime friend and writer Joel Sinensky, despite knowing exactly how alarming the pitch sounded. “I said, ‘Do you want to do this?’ And he said, ‘Well, that's terrifying,’” Fox recalls. It was then that Sinensky knew: “The fact that it's terrifying means I should probably do it.”
For Sinensky, that discomfort quickly became part of the show’s mission rather than …

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