Assassins

Stephen Sondheim's famously problematic musical about Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth and other Presidential-killers from American history is still problematic: too sketchy, too superficial, too glibly cynical. But Joe Mantello's slick and well-sung Broadway revival made the best case possible for it, and resurrected one of Sondheim's most appealing latter-day scores.

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