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.
Its Broadway debut in 2004 won five Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.
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2004 | Best Revival of a Musical | Winner |
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Wish You Were Here
South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage (1/12 - 2/2) | ||
Kelli O'Hara in Concert
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (2/1 - 2/1) | ||
RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR
South Coast Repertory (2/19 - 3/2) | ||
RENT in Concert
Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall (3/15 - 3/15) | ||
Avenue Q
Wisteria Theater (1/24 - 3/2)
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Tchaikovsky & The Mermaid
Walt Disney Concert Hall (2/7 - 2/9) | ||
Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/30 - 2/2) | ||
Celebrating MTT
Walt Disney Concert Hall (2/1 - 2/1) | ||
Laurie Sefton Creates at LA Dance Project
LA Dance Project (2/20 - 2/22) LOS ANGELES PREMIERE | ||
Chamber Music & Wine: From Armenia to Denmark
Walt Disney Concert Hall (4/22 - 4/22) | ||
Boston Ballet
The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (6/26 - 6/29) | ||
Wicked
Hollywood Pantages Theatre (1/16 - 2/2) | ||
Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra
The Canyon – Agoura Hills (2/15 - 2/15) | ||
Jesus Christ Superstar
Coachella Valley Repertory (3/14 - 3/14) | ||
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