Assassins: Sondheim’s Killer Musical Comedy
The Box Theater (Riverside, CA)
From John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley Jr., Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award winning one-act musical bends time to bring together America’s most memorable presidential assassins and puts them on stage for the performance of a lifetime. This warped but tuneful tour through history explores the dark underbelly of the American Dream. As the musical fleshes out the characters of the killers (or would-be killers) within the framework of a grisly carnival game, the revue-style parade of assassins makes you think about your own dark side and the part American culture plays in creating these monsters. The lively score takes on a variety of genres to reflect the popular music of each generation of assassins.
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