Assassins (1991 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1991-08-13
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
- Everybody's Got the Right
- The Ballad of Booth
- How I Saved Roosevelt
- The Gun Song/Ballad of Czolgosz
- Unworthy of Your Love
- The Ballad of Guiteau
- Another National Anthem
- November 22, 1963
- Final Sequence: You Can Close the New York Stock Exchange/Everybody's
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Free Music Review: A Darkly Humourus and Morbid Piece of Musical Theater
Hit: 5 Stars
There is no other musical quite like Sondheim's haunting and disturbing musical ASSASSINS. The ultimate composer of avant-garde, Stephen Sondheim, creates a disturbing look at a variety of assassins who either attempted to prevailed to kill a president. Sondheim's compelling music is rooted to a whole range of music genres. From the creepy pop song "Unworthy of your Love" to a number of Ballads: "The Ballad of Booth" portrays John Wilkes Booth's last stand at the barnhouse. It is one of the most compelling scenes in musical theater. Of course, there is the shocking last scene. Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy's assissin, is planning to commit suicide, only to be visited by past assassins. It is a harrowing sequence, ending with the shot and a heart-wrenching variation on a patriotic tune. One of my favorite songs is the opening theme where a proprieter in a carnival shooting booth. The proprietor, played by William Parry(Sunday in the Park with George-"boatman") greets all the assassins to the booth, as he tempts them with the one thing they want. It is a black comic song, the assassin Sara Jane Moore(Debra Monk) providing much of the comic relief. The opener is a wonderfully interesting and catchy song, meaningful and metaphoric. The main tune is an other-wise optimistic song, if taken out of context. "Everybody's got the right to be happy..." It is a rather amusing song for the assassins to sing, but it fits their whole meaning. Though the plot is very controversial, I recommend this to everyone. With the climactic "Another National Anthem", the assassins relieve all point of their actions and stampede off the one point of ethics in the whole musical. The assassins march together in one cohesive group, showing the dark side of the American Dream. It is really scary. I've read the whole script and the interactions of the assassins, who most have never even met each other in their factual lives, is qite real- the comic scene between Moore, a Kentucky Fried Chicken Bucket, and the one other woman assassin, Lynette Fromme, is a nausea inducing scene of black and dark comedy- Also, Samuel Byck, played by the hilarious Lee Wilkof(Seymoure from Little Shop of Horrors), has some funny monologues. This musical is a innovative display of Sondheim's talent- a disturbing and unforgettable musical experience. Also listen for Joy Franz(Cinderella's Stepmother from Into the Woods). The popular Victor Garber plays the infamous John Wilkes Booth. Terrance Man plays Leon Csolgasz. "Everbody's got the right, to their dream..." [I]Recommend all other Sondheim musicals.
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