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Productions of Assassins, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s controversial musical about historic gunshots, have historically shot themselves in the foot by opening—or trying to—in politically volatile times. The show’s premiere at Playwright’s Horizons was crippled by the climate of the Gulf War, and a recent Roundabout Theatre Company revival was canceled in the wake of the events of Sept. 11. In a Roundabout press release on Sept. 13, the authors announced, “Assassins is a show which asks audiences to think critically about...
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim...
HONORABLE MENTIONS: tick, tick... BOOM!, Infinite Joy, Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim...
...Lyrically, he could be sloppy: rhyming "m" and "n" sounds, cheating by using "piano" as a two-, then a three-syllable word in "I Love a Piano." A devilishly intricate rhyme a la Stephen Sondheim ("We'll have Leontyne Price to sing a/ Medley from 'Der Meistersinger'") was not Berlin's style - to Sondheim's caviar, his lyrics were Spam - but in "Annie Get Your Gun" he did a triple rhyme ("You can't shoot a male in the tail like a quail") whose comic force quickly escalates musically and in the singer's volume. And he could pay cheeky...
...then at retirement age. But he was never comfortable "sittin' in the sun, countin' my money," to quote the title of a Berlin tune that Louis Armstrong took to #30 in 1953. Around that time he prepared a musical, never produced, about Wilson and Addison Mizner (a Sondheim musical on the Mizner brothers, "Wise Guys," has languished for years). His last produced musical, the 1962 "Mr. President," meant to capitalize on the fascination with Jack and Jackie Kennedy but ran only eight months. He spent more than a decade on a sixth trunk-song film, "Say It With Music," which...