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Knowing exactly where Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller would be on a Sunday morning undoubtedly simplified his killer's plans. And that's not a new problem. Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated James Garfield, first planned to shoot the President coming out of church. He backed off only when he saw that Garfield was with his mother. Some things, after all, are sacred...
...some critics, what Sondheim and book writer John Weidman put onstage in 1991 was disaster enough. A carnival barker, under neon signs blaring HIT THE PREZ! WIN A PRIZE!, opens the show by luring in a parade of customers like John Wilkes Booth, John Hinckley and Charles Guiteau, the "disappointed 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...
...Assassins is framed as a series of pseudo-historical vignettes depicting presidential assassinations and attempts, beginning with assassination “pioneer” John Wilkes Booth and ending with Lee Harvey Oswald’s shot from the book depository. Time and space are fluid. Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau gives a shooting lesson to would-be Ford assassin Sara Jane Moore, and Booth suggests to Guiseppe Zangara that he might relieve his stomach pains by shooting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. Allowing the assassins throughout history to meet each other highlights the common themes that drove them...
...Guiteau, played by Oussama Zahr ’03, has another such number. Endearingly overbearing throughout, Zahr cakewalks while ascending the gallows, performing the upbeat number with the thinly masked confusion and desperation that the song demands...
...their "saner" moments, these three characters seem to embody some of the ideals and significant moments throughout United States history. Their over-the-top acts, however, draw attention to the thin line that seperates the pursuit of rights from the mad demands of insane men. Nuccio's Guiteau was so cheerful as to be alarming and Chazaro as Czolgosz sometimes assumed a glazed, obsessed look while describing the unfairness facing him in his job. The audience realizes that Byck has crossed the line into the realm of lunacy as he is observed recording tapes of his complaints to Leonard Bernstein...