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Saturday, October 19, 2019


Theater
 

8:00 PM, October 19



Assassins
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Shannon Tompkins, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

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.
The show 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.

Musical Director, Colin Keating

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