Word: sondheimer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sondheim's score, though lean, cleverly adapts American styles, adding a frighteningly ironic twist though lyrics which portray anything but traditional American sentiments...
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim...
...Proprietor at the opening of Assassins, the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical about the frustrated men and women who have attempted to assassinate presidents of the United States. Area theatergoers were afforded a rare treat this weekend as The Boston Conservatory staged an entirely professional and well executed production of Sondheim's latest work...
Assassins is a uniquely Sondheim piece in its unconventional subject matter. Yet it is a rather short work, (it runs about 90 minutes), almost half of which consists of John Weidman's witty scenes which play more like a series of vignettes than as a progressing storyline...
Unlike other Sondheim musicals, however, the score is not the towering star of the evening. John Weidman's book is excellent, and provides many of the best moments of the evening...