ASSASSINS - Zangara's speech in italian

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 11/28/22 at 12:19pm

I'm going to be working on a production of ASSASSINS in a few months, and as I read the script, I'm shocked to discover that no published version has the exact text of Zangara's Italian speech to Oswald. The translation of what he is saying is provided but it seems like the actual words are left up to the actor or dramaturg's ability to use google translate. I've listened to the cast albums of this show and indeed the text is drastically different in two of the recordings (the most recent off-Broadway revival didn't include it on their cast album.) I speak a very small amount of Italian myself but not nearly enough to listen and transcribe it. Does anyone with better italian than mine know what was said in either production?

Updated On: 11/28/22 at 12:19 PM

[TheOldRedHillsOfHome]

Posted: 11/28/22 at 1:33pm

It's odd that the text isn't in the published scripts, but it is in the licensed script that comes with the materials for the show. I've coped that text below.

Per favore, la supplico... 
Noi siamo i disperati gli smarriti...
Viviamo la nostra vita in'esilio...
Espatriati nella nostra terra...
Siamo partati sin dalla nascita, disperandoci...
Inconsolabili...
Ma, attraverso te e la tua azione osiamo sperare...
Attraverso te e la tua azione siamo ravviviati e diamo senso...
Il nostro vivere, le nostre azioni stanno dando senso...
Le nostre frustrazione svaniscono...
I nostri sogni profondi diventano veri...
Oggi, attraverso te, siamo rinati.

 

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 11/28/22 at 1:44pm

Thank you! Interesting...this is very close to, but not quite, the text spoken by Jeffrey Kuhn in the Broadway production, and very much NOT the text spoken by Eddie Korbach in the original off-Broadway production. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/28/22 at 1:54pm

It’s safe to assume it’s an extended rant about Chris Pratt’s performance in Mario, right?