Directed by Dan Pelletier
Music Directed by Amanda Morgan
Movement Choreography by Crystal Welch
. Artistic Director Dan Pelletier cites this show as “one of the most powerful and intriguing pieces ever. It combines some of Stephen Sondheim’s best work with incredible true crime tales.” Assassins is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International, and will play the Derry Opera House October 27-29.
A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim’s signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation’s culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America’s four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.
Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical “revusical” that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.
CAST
| ROLE | PERFORMER |
| Booth | Cameron Whealan |
| Guiteau | Cory Alan |
| Czologosz | Nathan Faro |
| Zangara | Christian Cornelio |
| Byck | Matthew Brides |
| Fromme | Emma McDonald |
| Moore | Jennifer Stearns |
| Hinckley | Adam Falk |
| Balladeer | Matthew Scharn |
| Goldman | Christina Kelly |
| Proprietor | Chris Cohen |
| Ensemble | Kole Ferreira |
| Ensemble | Christina Kelly |
| Ensemble | Katherine Maddox |
Production Team
| Director | Dan Pelletier |
| Choreographer | Crystal Welch |
| Stage Manager | Monica Derr |
| Music Director | Amanda Morgan |
| Costume Designer | Karen McGraw |
| ASM | Jessi Cooper |
| Sound Designer | Joey Martin |
| Lighting Designer | Alex Jozitis |
New Hampshire Theatre Award
- Outstanding Production Semi-finalist
- Outstanding Direction – Dan Pelletier – Semi-finalist
- Outstanding Actor – Christian Cornelio – Semi-finalist
- Outstanding Actor – Matthew Brides – Finalist
- Outstanding Actor – Cameron Whealan – Semi-finalist
- Outstanding Actress – Jennifer Stearns – Winner