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.
| 1989 | New York |
Reading New York |
| 1990 | Off-Broadway |
Original Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
| 1992 | Regional (US) |
Regional Revival Regional (US) |
| 1992 | West End |
London Revival West End |
| 2001 | Broadway |
Roundabout Revival [Cancelled] Broadway |
| 2004 | Broadway |
Roundabout Revival Broadway |
| West End |
London West End |
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| 2017 | Off-Broadway |
Encores! Off-Center Revival Off-Broadway |
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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| 2004 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Peggy Eisenhauer |
| 2004 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | 0 |
| 2004 | Theatre World Awards | Performance | Alexander Gemignani |
| 2004 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Jules Fisher |
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