Billboard: ‘Slam Frank’ Launching Kickstarter to Fund Original Cast Recording of 2025’s Most Divisive Musical

The hip-hop musical inspired by a viral-for-all-the-wrong-reasons tweet isn't done yet.

By Joe Lynch

In the competitive theatrical landscape of New York City, not every stage production turns out to be a hot ticket. Slam Frank, an off-Broadway musical that checked into Asylum NYC last fall-winter, wasn’t just hot—it was radioactive. A satirical hip-hop musical inspired by a 2022 tweet which questioned whether Holocaust victim Anne Frank, who died in 1945 at the age of 15, ever acknowledged “her white privilege,” Slam Frank was easiest the most divisive, rage-baiting production on or off Broadway in 2025.