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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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The Prom
Near West Theatre (4/12 - 4/28) | |
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She Kills Monster
Medina County Show Biz Company (4/26 - 4/28) | |
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An Evening with Kai Bird
Severance Music Center (5/15 - 5/15) | |
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The Magic Flute for Kids
Severance Music Center (5/18 - 5/18) | |
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Mozart's Gran Partita
Severance Music Center (5/23 - 5/25) | |
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Jitney
Beck Center for the Arts (4/5 - 5/5) | |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Weathervane Playhouse (8/8 - 9/1) | |
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Terence Blanchard and Friends: A Celebration of Wayne Shorter
Severance Music Center (5/21 - 5/21) | |
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