Dora Award Winner, ASSASSINS Returns to Toronto in 2011

In June, Birdland Theatre and Talk Is Free Theatre's co-production of Stephen Sondheim's ASSASSINS won the prestigious Dora award for Outstanding New Musical.  The companies have announced that they will bring the production back the Theatre Centre in Toronto in January 2011. Rumor has it that most of the cast will return for the victory lap.

As previously reported, the award-winning musical has been described by Talk Is Free Theatre as "Bold, original, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny, ASSASSINS is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written. This most American of musicals 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, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish rollercoaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and in an intense final scene inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream."

For more information on the upcoming run, visit http://www.birdlandtheatre.com/ or http://www.tift.ca/.