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...idea, but unfortunately it’s not a new one. Joe Mantello’s “Assassins, which appeared on Broadway four years ago,” had the same shooting gallery, and this production also copies its 2004 predecessor by merging the roles of the Balladeer??the show’s singing narrator—and Lee Harvey Oswald. Last Friday’s production may have come off without any major hitch, but there was a nagging feeling that the sparks didn’t fly, that it never reached out to rough...
...casting the two roles as one, the danger of oversimplifying history and the ultimate futility of the assassinations themselves are underscored. The Balladeer??s platitudes don’t convince the hapless, desperate assassins that their problems could have been solved without violence, that “when you lose, what you do is try again.” Defeated, he returns to join them as Oswald, only to fail again to find an easy solution...
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