Assassins (2004 Revival), 2004

The run closed July 18, 2004

Opened

April 22, 2004

Closed

July 18, 2004

Performances

101

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Studio 54

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 178th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Assassins (2004 Revival) 1 more that season

2012

Studio 54 Original · Joe Mantello

Who was in it17 named

Becky Ann Baker
Mary Catherine Garrison
Jeffrey Kuhn
James Clow
Kendra Kassebaum
Brandon Wardell
John Schiappa

10 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Joe Mantello, Joe Mantell

Choreographer

Jonathan Butterell

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Recordings 5 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Assassins (2004 Revival), and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, based on an original concept by Charles Gilbert Jr. Using the framing device of an all-American, yet sinister, carnival game, the semi-revue portrays a group of historical figures who attempted (successfully or not) to assassinate Presidents of the United States, and explores what their presence in American history says about the ideals of their country. The score is written to reflect both popular music of the various depicted eras and a broader tradition of "patriotic" American music. The musical opened Off-Broadway in 1990 to many mixed and negative reviews, and ran for 73 performances; in 2004, t…

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What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 5 recordings of Assassins (2004 Revival) document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.