Off-Broadway musical 'Slam Frank' releases crowdfunded cast album ahead of fall return

Slam Frank opened last September at the Asylum, a 150-seat Off-Broadway performance space in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen district, it had no marketing budget and no marquee actors in its cast.

What it did have was an out-there, provocative storyline — a progressive theater troupe presents Anne Frank as a pansexual Latina with a Black mother, a neurodivergent gay father, an ultra-orthodox Jewish sister, and a gender-fluid love interest as they hide from the Nazis — and a vibrant hip-hop-meets-pop songbook studded with Broadway Easter eggs.