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ASSASSINS
Our nation's most notorious assassins gather on stage to violently pursue a twisted American Dream.
A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Stephen 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.
DATES: March 6, 7, 8, & 9, 2025
LOCATION: Riverside Arts Center
Cast:
The Proprietor: Jeff Steinhauer
Leon Czolgosz: Nolan David
John Hinckley Jr.: Sean Heslip
Charles Guiteau: Jeremy Lepczynski
Guiseppe Zangara: Zach Husak
Samuel Byck: Josh Ferguson
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme: Jayne Harju
Sara Jane Moore: Carrie Jay Sayer
John Wilkes Booth: Dalton Cahill
The Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald: Ben Hodge
David Herold/President Garfield: Vaughn Louks
Emma Goldman: Kaitlyn Cross
James Blaine/President Ford: Robert Martin
Ensemble:
Kathleen Beardmore
Kaitlyn Cross
Vaughn Louks
Robert Martin
Melissa Paschall
Melissa Stewart
Production Staff:
Director: Connor Thomas Rhoades
Music Director: Ezra Donner
Producer: Brynn Arnall