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Norkin on Sondheim

Rarely has a show caused as many complaints as Assassins, by its mere production: a study of those who sought fame by killing a president. As for me, once I was in the theater, I was seduced by this evening of black comedy.

Critics such as John Simon decried the encouragement of copycats and the glamorization of the deranged, saying Assasins "should never have been produced." Doug Watt suggested that if no holds were barred, why not a show that would have been more entertaining called "Affairs", to dwell upon the inside stories of presidential dalliance. Plans to move the show to a Broadway house from tiny Playwrights Horizons never materialized.

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Assassins is about how society interprets the American Dream, marginalizes outsiders and rewrites and sanitizes its collective history. "Something Just Broke" is a major distraction and plays like an afterthought, shoe horned simply to appease. The song breaks the dramatic fluidity and obstructs the overall pacing and climactic arc which derails the very intent and momentum that makes this work so compelling...”
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“I found [the Sondheim Celebration's Company] to be completely delightful. Almost all of the numbers excited and energized me, and most of the scenes were about as pitch-perfect as you can get. I just sat there with a big smile on my face the whole show.

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