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...decided to be an actor when I was 9, before I really knew anything about any of it,” she says. Since coming to Harvard, Rich has performed in 16 productions, playing characters such as Lillian LaFleur in “Nine,” Samuel Byck in “Assassins,” and April in “Company.” She has worked behind the scenes in several shows including “Alice and Wonderland” and “Bent,” but performing is both her passion...
...mood of Hope and Change. Some directorial risk-taking would have helped.Still, the main thing about “Assassins” is the assassins, and this cast has some seriously talented standouts. The best, by a lot, is Alison H. Rich ’09. She played Samuel Byck, who, in Feburary of 1974, tried to hijack a plane, crash it into the White House, and kill Nixon. Instead, after killing a cop and a pilot, he killed himself.Byck had a habit of taping insane monololgues and mailing them off to people like Leonard Bernstein...
...line a person crosses that causes them to lose empathy for their fellow man.” He began researching assassins and created the story of a dejected man who talked into tape recorders during his spare time. It was only much later he found out about Samuel Byck and crafted his story around this real-life figure...
...office seeker" who shot President James A. Garfield. Hinckley and Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme--wannabe assassins of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, respectively--sing a duet about unrequited love, in their cases for Jodie Foster and Charles Manson. One musical number ends in an electrocution, another in a hanging. Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon, talks about wanting to crash a 747 into the White House (a line from 1991 that hasn't been changed). How in-your-face is this show? Sondheim originally wanted to open it at the former Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Says...
...impossible to watch Assassins without considering Sept. 11. Audiences today will probably wince more at hearing Byck describe his intent to crash a plane into Nixon’s White House, and accusations of civil liberties curtailment may strike an especially resonant chord. Even the set design, resplendent with American flags, campaign posters and news clippings reminds that this is a show about American values and affronts to them...