I first saw "Assassins," the lateStephen Sondheim'smusical, in high school at a theater festival, after sneaking inside. The quartet, Unlike all the other assassins in the musical, "[Oswald] is portrayed as a desperate man attempting to commit suicide and as the only assassin who had no intention of killing a President. Evoking a fraternity of Presidential assassins and would-be assassins across a hundred years of our history (including John Wilkes Booth, Lynette Squeaky Fromme, John Hinckley and Lee Harvey Oswald), he and collaborator John Weidman examine success, failure and the questionable drive for power and celebrity in American society. In the show, they are performing in a school production of the musical, which parallels events occurring in their own lives. google_color_link = "0000FF"; `\ko9Uov=:*e1;d"_[o>tt>E4V a'wL1UHGTZ/d !K3mN#"I6!vZ\6c` mg endstream endobj 71 0 obj <>stream /Filter /DCTDecode The scene changes to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The more you buy, the cheaper postage is per item! Something just broke", "Stephen Sondheim November 22, 1963/"Take a Look, Lee"/You Can Close the New York Stock Exchange", "What we laugh about when we laugh about Stephen Sondheim's assassins", "Sondheim's 'Assassins': Insane Realities of History", "The Politician Recap: Unworthy of Your Love", "Evening Standard Theatre Awards: Full list of nominees", "Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2015: The full list of winners", "2022 Drama League Awards Nominations Announced- Full List! 3 0 obj 5) WebIncluding staging notation, script annotation and rehearsal checklists Case Studies: Well-known productions show how to apply each chapters ideas Directing in Musical Theatre A=>Cx]? An image of Ronald Reagan appears on a wall in the back of the stage, and an enraged Hinckley shoots it over and over again, but the picture keeps reappearing.
