Overview
Plot
This darkly satirical musical views American history through the eyes of presidential assassins, staged as a surreal carnival sideshow that uses vaudeville, folk, barbershop, marches, and pop to undercut the American Dream.
- Directors
- Jerry Zaks
- Cast
- Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber, William Parry Leon, Terrence Mann, Greg Germann, Jonathan Hadary, Eddie Korbich, Lee Wilkof, Annie Golden, Debra Monk, Jace Alexander, Marcus Olsen, Lyn Greene, John Jellison, William Parry, Michael Shulman
- Genre
- Documentary
- Release date
- 1990-12-18
Plot
Warning: spoilers
By giving voice to figures from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Assassins explores how frustration, alienation, and entitlement can curdle into violence. The musical employs American traditions like Sousa-style marches and Bacharach pop to confront the unsettling continuity between personal disillusionment and national mythology, turning the stage into a mirror for America's darkest obsessions.
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