[NEohioPAL] Assassins 2nd Weekend at Lakeland

Fri Feb 11 03:48:29 PST 2011

"Assassins isn't just about the men and women who tired to kill presidents of 
the United States.
Assassins is about the American experience.  Assassins won five Tony Awards -- 
and for good reason.  

Theatergoers should trust Stephen Sondheim and director Martin Friedman.”

 Gregory Truhan, U.S.Secret Service (Retired)

Assassins isn't simply about the nuts who've tried to kill Presidents of the 
United States any more than 

Sweeney Todd is simply about a cannibalistic barber. 

Instead, Assassins is about politics, the media and the American experience.  
If you've ever seen a Sondheim musical - or if you've ever attended a show at 
Lakeland Theater - 

you won't be disappointed.  Do not miss this production.

Lakeland Theatre
ASSASSINS
Music and Lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by
John Weidman

Directed byMartin Friedman 
 Musical Director    John Krol 
Sets and Lights Designed byTrad A Burns 
Sound Design by Eric Simna 
  Costumes Designed by Craig Tucker 
  Technical DirectorTony Kavocic
Production Stage Manager  Joel Rathbone
 The Cast:

The Ensemble: Matt Super, Eric Fancher, Sarah Clare, Bernadette Hisey, Nicole 
Groah

 The Balladeer: Aaron Elersich

The Proprietor: Jim Jarrell 

Leon Frank Czolgosz Brian Altman

John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., Kevin Becker

Charles Julius Guiteau Kevin Joseph Kelly

Giuseppe Zangara Trey Gilpin

Samuel Joseph Byck  Brint Learned

Lynette Alice "Squeaky" FrommeNeely Gevaart 

Sara Jane Moore Amiee T Collier 

John Wilkes Booth Scott Esposito

Emma GoldmanBernadette Hisey

Lee Harvey Oswald  Curt Arnold

 THE PLAY: Lakeland’s production of Assassins continues director Martin 
Friedman’s examination of Stephen Sondheim’s musicals. Assassins journeys into 
the psyches of the nine successful and failed U.S. presidential assassins and 
lays bare their compulsions, half-baked political rationales, petty grievances, 
and the hallucinations nursed by each of them. It is also about the perils of a 
culture that dreams of tabloid immortality. Truly thought-provoking and 
eye-opening, this original off-Broadway production was a winner of five Tony 
Awards. 

Lakeland Theatre’s production is a professional production of the complete show 
and features the designs of celebrated set and lighting designer Trad A Burns 
and musical director John Krol. 

Production Dates:
February 2011

“Sondheim and Weidman chose a unique subject, but assassination is not 
sentimentalized or glorified. The musical questions American values, guns, and 
broken promises….Assassins is not an easy show; it does not resolve neatly; and 
it forces its audience to ponder its purpose. Its complexity challenges 
Americans to search for answers….”    

Barbara Means Fraser
http://www.sondheim.com/commentary/soc-struggle.html 

“Assassins, in fact, breaks ground the way no other musical has since, until 
recent Broadway productions Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson and The Scottsboro 
Boys.  Not everyone will like Assassins.  It makes demands, pokes holes in 
comfortable notions of political integrity and belts you in the chops with its 
hard driving energy and clout.  One of (Sondheim’s) most excoriating shows is 
Assassins, a dark, demonic look at American politics and the troubled wing-dings 
who assassinate, or at least attempt to cut down the nation’s 
Presidents.                                                             

 Gary Smith 
 http://www.thespec.com/entertainment/article/319694 

This is what they always wanted, isn't it? A clear shot at the big time….the 
glitteringly dark musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman about Americans 
who dream of killing their country's presidents has finally made it to Broadway. 
 So can these desperate people, whose greatest fear is of being thought small, 
actually expand in proportion to the lavish production they have been given? Oh 
boy, can they ever. 

Ben Brantley
24 April 2004 NYTimes
Take I 90 east and exit at the second exit, Route #306. Turn right (south) on 
Rt. #306. Turn left into the Lakeland Community College , the first light. Get 
in the right lane. Turn right at the stop sign. Turn right at the next stop 
sign. Turn left into the faculty/staff parking lot. Park at the other end of the 
parking lot and walk past the Clocktower and enter into Building D on your left. 
Parking is free in the faculty/staff parking lot (and all student lots all the 
time) after 7pm on weeknights and weekends from Friday through Sunday. 

Directions:  
Friday, February 11,  7:30 p.m. 
Saturday, February 12,  7:30 p.m. 
Sunday February 13,  2:00 p.m. 
Friday, February 18,  7:30 p.m.  
Saturday February 19,  2:00 p.m and 7:30 p.m.  
Sunday, February 20,  2:00 p.m.  

"Assassins" will open on Friday, February 4 and run through Sunday, February 20, 
2011-- Friday through Sunday. POST PLAY DISCUSSIONS will follow each 
performance. Retired Secret Service Agent Gregory Truhan and Dr. Martin Friedman 
will moderate. 

All evening shows begin at 7:30 PM. Sunday matinees begin at 2:00 PM. For ticket 
information and reservations please call 440/525-7526. Tickets are $15 for 
adults, $12 for seniors and $7 for all students.Group rates are available. For 
more information please feel free to either email me, Martin Friedman, at 
martinfriedman98 at yahoo.comor call 440.525.7034(and press #1 to bypass the 
message). 

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