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Assassins 2004

Ages: 13+
Opened: April 22, 2004
Closing: July 18, 2004

Assassins - 2004 Broadway History , Info & More

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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Assassins History

Other Productions of Assassins

1989   New York Reading
New York
1990   Off-Broadway Original Off-Broadway Production
Off-Broadway
1992   Regional (US) Regional Revival
Regional (US)
1992   West End London Revival
West End
2001   Broadway Roundabout Revival [Cancelled]
Broadway
2004   Broadway Roundabout Revival
Broadway
West End London
West End
2017   Off-Broadway Encores! Off-Center Revival
Off-Broadway

Assassins - 2004 Broadway Awards and Nominations

Note: Award winners will appear on a background
Year Ceremony Category Nominee
2004 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Lighting Design Peggy Eisenhauer
2004 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Revival of a Musical 0
2004 Theatre World Awards Performance Alexander Gemignani
2004 Tony Awards Best Lighting Design Jules Fisher

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