Rarely staged 1990 Stephen Sondheim musical is about Americans who aspire for fame and revenge by assassinating presidents
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the musical “Assassins” was six weeks away from its long-awaited Broadway debut. Then the 9/11 attacks occurred and the rants by one of the musical’s characters about crashing a hijacked 747 jetliner into the White House to kill the president was no longer a madman’s fantasy.
Written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman in 1990 and based on real people, “Assassins” is a musical about nine disgruntled Americans who aspire to assassinate a U.S. president to achieve personal fame, settle a grudge or promote a cause. All of them are White and most of them are young men in their 20s — the same demographic as the mass shooters plaguing America today.The disturbing, but darkly funny musical explores their commonalities.
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