Original Off-Broadway Cast of Assassins Join Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman for Free Virtual Event March 8 playbill.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from playbill.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Studio Tenn will host a 30-year reunion of the original cast of Assassins, a Tony Award-winning musical.
Patrick Cassidy, Studio Tenn s artistic director, was part of the original cast and organized the reunion. The free virtual event is slated for Monday, March 8 at 7 p.m. as part of the “Studio Tenn Talks: Conversations with Patrick Cassidy.
The show premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in December 1990. It closed out the following year after more than 70 performances.
It explores the lives of nine real-life people who assassinated, or attempted to assassinate, a United States President, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Studio Tenn Talks: Conversations with Patrick Cassidy series. The original Off-Broadway cast of
Assassins. Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
The original cast and creative team of the 1991 Off-Broadway debut of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidmanâs Tony-winning
Assassins reunite virtually March 8 at 8 PM ET to celebrate the musical s 30th anniversary.
The free online event is part of the
Studio Tenn Talks: Conversations with Patrick Cassidy series and features Studio Tenn Artistic Director Cassidy as well as other original cast members Victor Garber, Greg Germann, Annie Golden, Lyn Greene, Jonathan Hadary, Eddie Korbich, Terrence Mann, Debra Monk, William Parry, and Lee Wilkof plus Sondheim and Weidman, director Jerry Zaks, musical director Paul Gemignani, and orchestrator Michael Starobin.