ASSASSINS
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October 7, 2016, 8:00 PM October 14, 2016, 8:00 PM October 21, 2016, 8:00 PM Saturdays: October 8, 2016, 8:00 PM October 15, 2016, 1:00 PM and 8:00 PM October 22, 2016, 8:00 PM |
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr.
Book by John Weidman
Based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr.
A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-De-force, Assassins combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation's culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America's four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing, and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.
Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical "revusical" that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.an to tutor his brassy girlfriend but gets more than he bargained for when he discovers a little bit of learning can be a dangerous thing.
Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical "revusical" that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.an to tutor his brassy girlfriend but gets more than he bargained for when he discovers a little bit of learning can be a dangerous thing.
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Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment of the Arts, through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural Heritage Affairs.
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