Assassins
- User Rating
- 0
- Running Time
- 90
- Original Title
- Assassins
- Release Date
- 1990-12-18 00:00:00
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This darkly satirical musical reframes American history through the eyes of those who attempted – successfully or not – to kill US presidents. Structured as a surreal carnival sideshow, the piece weaponises American musical traditions – vaudeville, folk ballads, barbershop quartets, patriotic Sousa-style marches and Bacharach pop – to undercut the myth of the “American Dream,” exposing how frustration, alienation and entitlement can curdle into violence. By giving voice to figures from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Assassins invites audiences not to condone their acts but to confront the unsettling continuity between personal disillusionment and national mythology, turning the musical stage into a mirror for America’s darkest obsessions.
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John Wilkes Booth
Victor Garber
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Leon Czolgosz
Terrence Mann
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John Hinckley
Greg Germann
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Giuseppe Zangara
Eddie Korbich
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Samuel Byck
Lee Wilkof
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Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme
Annie Golden
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Sara Jane Moore
Debra Monk
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Jace Alexander
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David Herold
Marcus Olsen
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Emma Goldman
Lyn Greene
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President James Garfield / President Gerald Ford
William Parry
