Assassins on Broadway

[SPQR]

Just got home from seeing this incredible show. One of the best productions I've ever seen on any stage, Broadway or elsewhere. Chilling, disturbing, thought-provoking, funny as hell. Expertly cast, beautifully sung (I think Neil Patrick Harris - Doogie Houser to most of us - has a real future on Broadway), magnificantly staged. If you've never seen the show, or have only heard the original cast album, be prepared for a dark and powerful show. Any DUers living in the tri-state area, you've got to see this show.

[eileen from OH]

1. Ooooh, I'm so jealous

I love Assassins but have only seen a quite credible local production. Would love to get to NYC for it. Actually, Neil Patrick Harris recently did the role of Toby in a concert version of "Sweeney Todd" and he was marvelous. Gorgeous voice.

eileen from OH

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Cool! I just saw "Sly Fox" the other night,

with Richard Dreyfuss and Rene (I'm gonna spell this wrong) Aberjenois and the guy who played the tuppie husband/boyfriend of Newhart's maid in "NewHart" and some others. I went Wednesday, and sadly, Dreyfuss hurt his back, so Rene played his role, but the play was HILARIOUS.

I was supposed to be seeing Judd Hirsch in "Sixteen Wounded", a VERY WELL received play in London and elsewhere about a Jewish guy and a Palestinian guy who become good and fast friends, on Tuesday night, but for whatever reason the show wasn't popular here in NYC and closed Sunday, after being open for only a couple weeks, and I'm totally pissed about this. I love Judd Hisrch, and the play itself seemed so incredible and what I am interested in, and I missed it - thankfully, I'll get my ticket cost back, but still have to eat the $10 or whatever in Telecharge (when I'm president, telecharge will be handed off to the hague) fees.

I'm glad you had a good time! I haven't heard of the play you went to, but it totally sounds up my alley as something I'd enjoy, and so I will check it out.

[Sentath]

3. "Presidents are not murdered,

shopkeepers and adulterers are murdered. When a president is killed he is assassinated. Take the man who assassinated Caesar"

"Brutus!"

(archly)"Oh? You know him? Brutus assassinated Caesar some two thousand years ago and here we have a high-school dropout with a dollar-twenty-five an hour job who knows his name, and they say fame is fleeting."

(I think thats how it goes)
{rlg}

[SPQR]

4. Exactly right.

Booth was great. The whole cast was spot-on. We're gong to try to see it again. A powerful, powerful work, especially for these times. And Sondheim's added a song, "Something Just Broke"; people singing about how they heard of Kennedy's assassination, and their reaction. Beautiful and moving.

The more I reflect on the show, the more I come to think it's the best thing I've ever seen on Broadway.

[Sentath]

5. I can believe you

I quoted that from the memory of an NPR piece on the show that I heard ...*shrug* more than 3 days ago.

{rlg}