Review: Assassins by Soubrette Productions

by David Glen Robinson
Published on April 04, 2014

Assassins has perhaps one of the most bizarre premises in musical theatre, the conjuration of the elite class of American assassins, those who attempted the lives of American presidents, successfully or not. Steven Sondheim and John Weidman brought together this scurvy crew and gave them songs to sing to explain and justify themselves and the climactic actions of their lives. Thus we gained an ensemble of characters including Leon Czolgosz (killed McKinley), Charles Guiteau (killed Garfield), …

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