By: SPUTNIK
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned that heartthrob Neil Patrick Harris was in the 2004 broadway version, and does a hell of a fine job as Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald. It's a great musical and...
View ArticleBy: ariel_caliban
My brother played Zangara in a local production a few years ago in a space so intimate that the intensity was sometimes difficult to watch. I enjoyed it immensely, but I'm all for the...
View ArticleBy: Ghidorah
My university theater department did this show, but it was in my senior year when I was sort of moving out of theater (dropped the major to a minor, stopped working on every show). Still, I went to the...
View ArticleBy: the sobsister
Saw an interesting production (NYC maybe?) some years ago in which the curtain came up, and the titular assassins were seated facing us in seats similar to the ones we were in. It was a great and...
View ArticleBy: benzenedream
I'd be satisfied with an America that was as self-aware as West Side Story.
View ArticleBy: ThatFuzzyBastard
Assasins is a fascinating hunk of theater. Like a lot of Sondheim's shows (the exception being the dramaturgically perfect Sweeny Todd), it presents some big problems for a director to fix---in...
View ArticleBy: munchingzombie
As 16-18 year old auditioning for school musicals or community theater I would use some of the songs from this show as audition pieces. I am so glad I don't take myself seriously anymore because a...
View ArticleBy: rmd1023
"Unworthy of Your Love" is such a wonderfully twisted song, with the meaning totally changing depending on whether or not you have the context of the show or just the specific text of the song. The...
View ArticleBy: alasdair
As a Sondheim-loving Brit I must say that ASSASSINS has taught me more about President Garfield than I would otherwise ever have known... GREAT musical.
View ArticleBy: mediated self
A theater-major friend introduced me to Assassins years ago. At first I was just interested in the novelty of the concept, but it turned out to be a decent musical, too.
View ArticleBy: spitbull
Well, I wasn't thinking about assassinations before . . . And by the bye, whatever else one can say about Burt Bachrach's ballads, "simple" is not the first word that comes to mind to this musician's...
View ArticleAnother National Anthem
For everyone who's thinking about assassins today, I offer up Sondheim and Weidman's take. Opening off-Broadway in 1990 and revived in 2004, Assassins, by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, uses the...
View ArticleBy: still_wears_a_hat
But if you see it done well it really is perfect. At least arguably, and I'd argue it. I saw the 2004 revival - the one with Neil Patrick Harris, whom I'd never heard of - from the second row, and it's...
View ArticleBy: crossoverman
The history of the show is quite rocky, given its original production opened around the same time of Gulf War I - and the 2004 revival was originally scheduled to open in September 2001. Both times,...
View ArticleBy: goofyfoot
The University of Tennessee Knoxvile uploaded their 2007 production. Part one is here. And here is the Tony Awards performance of the 2004 cast doing "Everybody's got the right," with NPH, and Mario...
View ArticleBy: alasdair
Of course, an up-to-date version would involve persuading a young man that the way to fame and attention and world-wide infamy was to shoot up a school. Softer target than a President, just as much...
View Article
