Talk:Assassins (musical)

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Assassins (musical), a 1991 musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. Dealing with the culture, psychology, and atmosphere which surrounds the unique American phenomenon of presidential assassination, it features every successful and attempted presidential assassin in American history (from John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley). First opening off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 1991, it received its Broadway debut on April 22, 2004. The production won six out of seven 2004 Tony awards for which it was nominated (Best Revival of a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael Cerveris), Best Lighting Design (Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher), Best Direction of a Musical (Joe Mantello), and Best Orchestrations (Michael Starobin). After a limited run of 101 performances, it closed on July 18th, 2004.

not every attempted assassination is chronicled in the musical... the attempt on Andrew Jackson is left out.

At some point, there needs to be some mention of the various versions of the piece (with roles conflated in some, songs added, etc.) - Nunh-huh 23:59, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

1 Synopsis
2 Sarah Vowell
3 Perfomance section
4 Historical accuracy?
5 Started Copy Edit
6 Linking days & years?
7 List of songs
8 Copyedit

[edit] Synopsis

I added a synopsis. It was taken from http://www.mtishows.com/show_plot.asp?ID=000136 however I do not know how to cite it. any help? 69.138.90.108 19:45, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Excellent. The synopsis was very long, so I did a paraphrase-and-edit to slim it down (with credit to source both in article and in citation/reference). I tried to do the whole slimming in two giant saves, so if anyone really hates what I did and wants to go back to the original go ahead and revert (but be sure to revert both saves). If you find a grammar, spelling, etc. error I made don't revert, that will wipe out the whole thing, just put your correction in on top.
The Musical Theater Project guidelines ask us to include the titles of each of the songs in the synopsis as they appear in the show, but I haven't seen this show. Does someone who feels confident integrate the missing song titles? I'm leaving the 'Expert' tag up for that.
~ Otterpops 01:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I copied the list of songs from the Sondheim.com and (assuming that was the only "expert" need) removed the expert tag. --teb728 00:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Nope, the Project guidelines call for integration of song titles into the Synopsis section rather than a separate bulleted list of songs. The reason I put the Expert tag up was that so many of the scenes contain no named musical number: I haven't seen this show so I wanted someone who had to check that the list of songs was complete. I did check the Synopsis against the list before clipping it - it looks like they're all present and accounted for. Good enough!

~ Otterpops 18:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sarah Vowell

Author Sarah Vowell begins her book Assassination Vacation with an anecdote about leaving New York City to see a production of it in New England. This seems pretty significant, but how to incorporate it into the article? Telestylo 06:59, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps in a bit of trivia? A section on trivia at the end? --Travlr23 16:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Perfomance section

Does anyone else think the last section on "Performing Assassins" is NPOV at worst and unnecessary at best?

[edit] Historical accuracy?

It would be interesting to say something in this article about how accurate or otherwise the script is in portraying history. 69.229.20.210 21:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Started Copy Edit

Will finish up tomorrow. ~ Otterpops 02:07, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linking days & years?

???

~ Otterpops 12:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of songs

Comparison of versions of recordings worth the large number of bulleted lists in this article? Tempted to cut the list of songs. Feedback?
~ Otterpops 13:42, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, found the Project Page instructions. ~ Otterpops 16:17, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyedit

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