Assassins Review Nottingham Playhouse Stephen Sondheim

[@eugenegriffin4400]

I think Sondheim has a particular sound and you can say oh that’s Sondheim from just an opening of a song and if Rogers and Hammerstein played I would be like yep that’s them so all composers have a particular sound

[@marquise5265]

How many of these are you seeing per week?! I think somebody has a theatre overdose. Would recommend a detox, but then I'm enjoying these reviews a bit too much, so thank you for your dedication and commitment to the cause, we appreciate it :)))

[@TheBreakALeggers]

Thanks Marquise. We are slowly losing our minds!

[@johnmangham2802]

Sometimes you stand in the middle of the floor? Not going left? Not going right?

[@TheBreakALeggers]

@@johnmangham2802 EXACTLY!

[@ruthedwards7775]

Saw this and thought it was brilliant!!

[@stryker94109]

Please show the entrance ways and interiors of each venue!

[@crewcut4]

I do have a question that has always bothered me about this piece. I have seen it done 4 times now, twice in America and twice in London (both the Donmar opening one and the one at Menier Chocolate Factory). In each case, the gun shots were done as offstage sounds. Was that the case of this production? I ask because when I produced the show at a college in America, I hired a proper film gun props company out of Chicago and used weapons which we actually fired onstage--it made it so much more effective. We even had the very Mannlicher-Carcano rifle on our stage that had been used in the Lee Harvey Oswald episode of the TV show "Quantum Leap". I have always felt that offstage "pops" are kind of cheating. Let the actors handle and use the weapons at the moments where they are to be employed. Just me sounding off. We did the show in 1991, just after it closed its original Broadway production and got the personal permission of Mr. Sondheim to do it--one of my own personal highlights in doing theatre. I also played Pres. James Garfield myself.

[@tonyfox8020]

Saw this at the Nottingham Playhouse & thought it was a brilliant production using actors who were singing & playing instruments all in a pretty tight space. Slick & superbly performed and yes the shooting was all done on stage.