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Assassins (Theatre)

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Assassins (Theatre)	comment	Assassins, with a book by John Weidman and score by Stephen Sondheim, is, to put it simply, a revue featuring nine men and women who have killed (or attempted to kill) the President of the United States.The show is narrated by the Balladeer, who comments on the assassins' actions and motivations. The various killers (John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Giuseppe Zangara, John Hinckley, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Leon Czolgosz, Samuel Byck, and Lee Harvey Oswald) interact throughout the play, regardless of the time period. Their assassination attempts are represented like a carnival game — a bell rings when they succeed, and a buzzer sounds when they fail.The show is often seen as a dark reflection on the nebulous idea of "the American dream". The assassins are dispossessed, disenfranchised, and disillusioned, but they still hold a disproportionate sense of entitlement because they are in America: the land where any kid can grow up to be president, the land where the opening song puts it — "everybody's got the right to their dreams". It also takes a sideways look at capitalism and gun culture in America. Basically, imagine a musical where every song is the Villain Song.Notable in that the music largely mirrors popular music from the assassins' lifetimes. And also for the HUGE amounts of Lyrical Dissonance.Not to be confused with Professional Killer. Also not to be confused with the film of the same name.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Assassins (Theatre) / int_14beeefd	comment	Guiteau is a Darker and Edgier take on this concept. He is also seen to place a certain amount of blind faith in America and its government and believes that you can achieve anything you want in life if you try hard enough.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
Assassins (Theatre) / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: Zigzagged. Played straight with Czolgosz (a bass-baritone), Byck (a bass, though he doesn't sing much), and the Proprietor (a bass). Zigzagged with Booth (a baritone) and Fromme and Moore (both mezzos). Subverted entirely with Guiteau and Zangara (both tenors, though Zangara's even higher than Guiteau). Also subverted with Oswald in the 2004 version. Oswald himself only sings one line in the entire show, but the balladeer, who becomes Oswald in the 2004 version, is a tenor.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1950b76f	type	A Good Way to Die
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1950b76f	comment	A Good Way to Die: Booth and Guiteau very much believed they were martyrs and that they sacrificed themselves to save the country.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Bonus points for that being the first time we hear Oswald's full name. (Booth has, up to this point, just called him "Lee.")
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Some productions have Arthur Bremer, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray (the shooters of George Wallace, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. respectively) appear briefly to help convince Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate JFK.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1b73fada	type	The Dandy
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1b73fada	comment	The Dandy: Booth embodies the well-dressed Southern Gentleman stereotype and is described as preferring "furs and fancy silks."
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Half the Presidents. In some productions, they are represented by the Proprietor donning an outfit, but it is very rare to see someone actually cast as any of them.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Booth, the former actor, is described as this.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: Several songs qualify: "Everybody's Got the Right" for the Proprietor (and, to a lesser extent, the assassins) Booth's parts of "The Ballad of Booth". Zangara's parts in "How I Saved Roosevelt". "Unworthy of Your Love" for Hinckley and Fromme. "Another National Anthem" for the assassins collectively. Though it's mostly a scene of dialogue, there are a few sung bits at the end of "November 22, 1963" that could be considered a villain song for the assassins collectively. "Everybody's Got the Right (Reprise)" for the assassins collectively. "The Gun Song" does not count because, though sung by the assassins and alluding to their planned crimes, they don't talk about their specific plans or their motivations. They just marvel at the power of the gun as an invention in a way that's... kind of a borderline case, but doesn't quite reach the threshold. "The Ballad of Czolgosz" does not count because it is not sung by Czolgosz, and the Balladeer is opposed to Czolgosz's actions, making it a "The Villain Sucks" Song. "The Ballad of Guiteau" does not count because Guiteau's parts are not about his crime or his motivations, they're just about his personal philosophy and his mental and spiritual preparation for his own execution.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1e7487cd	comment	Guiteau's above-mentioned Breaking the Fourth Wall and Sara Jane Moore's Rummage Fail in "The Gun Song." It's heavily contrasted with the sad, sombre portion of the song sung by Czolgoz about how many men are killed making a gun.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Assassins (Theatre) / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: Referenced in the final scene, with the characters convincing Lee Harvey Oswald to go through with the shooting.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Assassins (Theatre) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The show depicts America as one, with its various problems inspiring some of the assassins to their attempts. Special focus is given to capitalism - Czolgosz is driven to his attempt through the terrible conditions for factory workers in the Gilded Age, while Zangara is inspired by the deleterious medical effects of years of hard labor and the working class' lack of support and social mobility.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Assassins (Theatre) / int_222dc873	comment	In general, most of the show is much more comedic (albeit in a dark way) than the final scene with Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Assassins (Theatre) / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "The Ballad of Guiteau" has Guiteau singing to himself to "look on the bright side" as a mean to reassure himself that he will be rewarded for killing President Garfield "tomorrow" and God would save him. The end of said ballad has the Balladeer using those same words to sarcastically reassure Guiteau that he'll be saved from his death sentence, and he'll be remembered, despite being beyond saving or redemption.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_242f638e	type	Pastiche
Assassins (Theatre) / int_242f638e	comment	Pastiche: Nearly every song is a homage to a different American musical style like patriotic marches and '80s pop.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Assassins (Theatre) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Characters from vastly different historical eras are seen interacting with each other.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Assassins (Theatre) / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Guiteau, who despite his mannerisms is still attracted to Sara Jane Moore.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Assassins (Theatre) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded, or something like that with the ending. As pointed out, all but four of the assassins shown technically attempted their crimes well after Oswald shot JFK. Booth actually uses this to convince him to go through with it.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Assassins (Theatre) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: From the Balladeer's point of view, all the assassins. While you can definitely make a case for all of them being crazy, it's not quite that simple.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_2e121b44	type	Southern Gentleman
Assassins (Theatre) / int_2e121b44	comment	Southern Gentleman: Booth is a villainous example. After his "Ballad," he uses his charm and persuasion to coax others into assassination throughout the show.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_2f6f1a06	type	"Shut Up!" Gunshot
Assassins (Theatre) / int_2f6f1a06	comment	"Shut Up!" Gunshot: Not intentional, but Moore silences the entire cast and stops the song when she accidentally fires into the roof during "The Gun Song".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Assassins (Theatre) / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: The crowd singers in "How I Saved Roosevelt" make it seem like they all saved the President by doing inconsequential things. The Balladeer states to all the Assassins that shooting Presidents just gave them some attention rather than solving any of their problems.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_34e05535	type	Rummage Fail
Assassins (Theatre) / int_34e05535	comment	Rummage Fail: Sara Jane Moore attempts to pull out a "really great gun" in "The Gun Song", but pulls out a shoe on her first attempt.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
Assassins (Theatre) / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: Near the very end of the show. The sequence labelled "November 22, 1963/Take A Look, Lee" is where John Wilkes Booth and company convince Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate JFK.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Assassins (Theatre) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Booth calmly and solemnly kills himself, stating he will supposedly die with his country which is "not what it was".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Assassins (Theatre) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald ends up killing Kennedy. Knowing this doesn't make the scene any less nail-bitingly tense. Also, Czolgosz, Guiteau, and Booth succeed in their assassination attempts, while Hinckley, Fromme, Moore, Byck, and Zangara fail. This goes for the rest of the assassinations/attempts as well. Perhaps because of this, both "The Ballad of Booth" and "The Ballad of Guiteau" take place after brief dialogue scenes recounting the assassinations, while the songs themselves are about the character's backstories and ultimate fates.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Assassins (Theatre) / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Charles J. Guiteau, who, even when waiting to be executed, is compelled to "look on the bright side".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Assassins (Theatre) / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: The Balladeer. He believes that the American dream is fundamentally attainable and fundamentally good, a point generally refuted by the show. Guiteau is a Darker and Edgier take on this concept. He is also seen to place a certain amount of blind faith in America and its government and believes that you can achieve anything you want in life if you try hard enough.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_3fb5ab75	type	The Eleven O'Clock Number
Assassins (Theatre) / int_3fb5ab75	comment	The Eleven O'Clock Number: A dark twist on the trope with "Another National Anthem". "Something Just Broke," added in the 2004 revival, provides a truer example. We've spent the entire show in the company of the assassins, building up to a tremendous climax where Oswald shoots and kills Kennedy... then we see its effect on ordinary American citizens, and it's devastating.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Assassins (Theatre) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies:
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Assassins (Theatre) / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: John Wilkes Booth personally convinces Zangara, Czolgosz, and Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot Presidents.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_42f8ae38	type	Cue Card Pause
Assassins (Theatre) / int_42f8ae38	comment	Cue Card Pause: Inverted when Squeaky Fromme reads the inscription on the back of the photo of Jodie Foster without any pauses, ending with:
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Assassins (Theatre) / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Subverted with Giuseppe Zangara in two ways: first, as he mentions in "How I Saved Roosevelt," he's a naturalized American citizen. Second, in the scene where he begs Oswald to go through with killing Kennedy, he chooses to speak Italian, with the other assassins translating for him, proving he's more eloquent in his native tongue. It's also oddly referenced with Czolgosz: according to the script, he was "born in the middle of Michigan,"note Technically, in Alpena, which is on the coast making him an American citizen, but he bitterly comments that he comes down in history as a "deranged immigrant" in "Another National Anthem". (And he still has a vaguely Eastern European accent, possibly because in Real Life he was the only member of his immediate family born in the United States, and they lived in at least one Polish enclave during his childhood.)
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_439e50f7	type	What Have We Ear?
Assassins (Theatre) / int_439e50f7	comment	What Have We Ear?: Gerald Ford does this when he's helping Fromme and Moore pick up a bunch of bullets they had just dropped.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Assassins (Theatre) / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: Booth says Lincoln "threw the 'U' out of 'USA'".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_44cf7d2c	type	Incredibly Long Note
Assassins (Theatre) / int_44cf7d2c	comment	Incredibly Long Note: "Everybody's got the right... to their dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeams..." Some productions have Guiteau stretch out the "book" in "Promote the sales of my book!" for an impressively long time. Occasionally while holding up his book and trying to show it to the audience.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Assassins (Theatre) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: At one point, Moore points her gun at her son to get him to stop bothering her for money to buy ice cream.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_48de3cc6	type	The Music Meister
Assassins (Theatre) / int_48de3cc6	comment	The Music Meister: The Balladeer has elements of this. Also, to a lesser extent, the Proprietor.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
Assassins (Theatre) / int_4c554daf	comment	President Evil: Well, from some of the assassins' point of view. Czolgosz and Zangara believe that their respective presidents are responsible, in some way or another, for the systemic problems of American laissez-faire capitalism.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Assassins (Theatre) / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: The opening of "Another National Anthem" has every single assassin rave about why they assassinated or attempted to assassinate the U.S. Presidents of their time.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Assassins (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Four of the attempts succeed, and after the assassination of Kennedy, we see the reactions of normal Americans, knowing that the villains won.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Assassins (Theatre) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Most of "The Ballad of Booth" paints John Wilkes Booth as having a legitimate grievance against Abraham Lincoln. Then, near the very end of the song, he calls the President a "Nigger lover," and suddenly we realize how much of his hatred was motivated by racism. From "Something Just Broke": "The president's been shot..." Depending on the version, either of the two lines where Lee's full name is first stated. Just in case there was anyone in the audience who was left in any doubt as to who he was before then. It's downplayed since anyone going in must know the premise, but this also pops up in the very beginning. After the Proprietor smoothly croons, drawing in Czolgosz, he bluntly tells him "Come here and kill a President!", which lets us know exactly what kind of show we're watching.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Assassins (Theatre) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The Zapruder film is projected onto Oswald's shirt after he shoots Kennedy.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_512b00e0	type	BSoD Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_512b00e0	comment	BSoD Song: "The Ballad of Guiteau", particularly Guiteau's last solo section.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Assassins (Theatre) / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Sam Byck is fat and attempts to kill Richard Nixon for seemingly failing him and the nation.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_52e23ce	type	Inn Between the Worlds
Assassins (Theatre) / int_52e23ce	comment	Inn Between the Worlds: A variant. The framing device for the musical involves two locations, an Amusement Park of Doom and a Bad Guy Bar, each of which exists in a sort of temporal limbo where characters from vastly different time periods are able to interact, and, as seen in the final scenes of the musical, even travel into other time periods.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Assassins (Theatre) / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Sam Byck. He is very eloquent and capable of crafting surprisingly poetic metaphors, but he doesn't understand megatonnes or holes in the ozone layer.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Assassins (Theatre) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The show begins with "Everybody's Got The Right" and ends with a reprise of the same.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Assassins (Theatre) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Charles Guiteau is a jolly, optimistic guy... who assassinated a president.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_55c72164	type	Death Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_55c72164	comment	Death Song: "The Ballad of Booth" for John Wilkes Booth. In his final minutes, Booth bemoans about how the country has fallen from grace, and dies believing that he'll be remembered as the hero who slew "the tyrant". Then the Balladeer steps in to remind the audience that this wasn't the case. "How I Saved Roosevelt" for Giuseppe Zangara, who dies by electric chair. Like in real life, he spends his last moments raging about how no photographers are there to capture his death ("Only capitalists get photographers!"), and urges the executioner to pull the switch. "The Ballad of Guiteau" for Charles Guiteau, who is executed at the gallows. The song ends with him dancing happily up the steps, ready to meet "the Lordy".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Assassins (Theatre) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Guiteau did not ask Garfield for the Ambassador to France position in the train station, and moreover the position he wanted was "Consul to Paris". Moore and Fromme did not attempt to shoot Ford on the same occasion; they were about three weeks apart. "The Ballad of Booth" states he "died in a barn, in pain and bitter, twenty-seven years of age." Booth was actually twenty-six when he died, but he was only about two weeks off from his twenty-seventh birthday, so... close enough. The play also shows Booth committing suicide by shooting himself. In reality, he was shot and killed by Union soldier Boston Corbett after trying to escape from the barn (he wasn't, contrary to the lyrics, technically in the barn when he died, either, but on the front porch of the farmhouse, where he was brought after being shot; he was paralyzed and died a few hours later). Some performances show the historical version. Zangara didn't say "Pull switch!" as his execution command, but instead, "Push the button!". It's implied that Zangara was executed for trying to shoot Roosevelt. While this is certainly a felony, in reality, Zangara would be executed for killing Anton Cermak. Cermak is mentioned in the play, but it is not said that he died. After Byckâ€™s second monologue, the sound of a plane taking off is heard, implying Byck managed to get it off the ground but failed to crash it into the White House. Byck never even got that far in real life- though he did board the plane, he made the mistake of shooting the pilot and killing him, leading to the plane never getting off the ground. Byck would ultimately be shot by county police officer Charles Troyer before killing himself with one of his own guns. The Proprietor calls Booth a "pioneer" when he first appears, implying that he was the first man to shoot a president. While he did give others the idea that they can kill the president, as the Balladeer mentions in the following song, the first man to try to shoot a president was a delusional painter named Richard Lawrence, who attempted to shoot Andrew Jackson. His pistols both jammed, and Jackson beat him with his cane before he was arrested.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Assassins (Theatre) / int_590eb583	comment	Guiteau's angry reaction to Moore rejecting his advances reflects on his real-life Domestic Abuse of his wife.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_5a71be2d	type	Bad Santa
Assassins (Theatre) / int_5a71be2d	comment	Bad Santa: Byck is an alcoholic in a Santa suit who attempts to murder President Nixon.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_5bb60a3c	type	The Presents Were Never from Santa
Assassins (Theatre) / int_5bb60a3c	comment	The Presents Were Never from Santa: Byck's motivation, literally and figuratively, is because he believed Santa is a lie, which also serves a double meaning about him perceiving the American Dream being a lie. Byck even makes a recording to Richard Nixon, telling him that he voted for Nixon and the president let him down, preventing him from making any money.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Assassins (Theatre) / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Byck, during his monologues, is extremely guilty of this.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Assassins (Theatre) / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: After Oswald shoots Kennedy, we hear a large version of the previous "Hail To The Chief" waltz theme.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_5dff009d	type	As Long as There Is Evil
Assassins (Theatre) / int_5dff009d	comment	As Long as There Is Evil: The 2021-2022 Classics Stage Company off-Broadway production ended with a projection of a photo of the January 6 insurrectionists, showing that even though most of the Assassins are gone (Hinckley is the only one still alive today), the idea that people could still attack the government lives on.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Assassins (Theatre) / int_5e2e55e4	comment	Guiteau is a real Casanova in his attempt to seduce Moore, but when her gun goes off near his head, he flips out.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_6112fb53	type	Obsession Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_6112fb53	comment	Obsession Song: "Unworthy of Your Love", a duet between John Hinckley and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme about their respective obsessions, Jodie Foster and Charles Manson. Both sides are of the passive type.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_660d1f3e	type	Amusement Park of Doom
Assassins (Theatre) / int_660d1f3e	comment	Amusement Park of Doom: The showâ€™s primary setting is an amusement park in some sort of temporal limbo where people from all periods of American history meet, and where the Proprietor runs a shooting gallery. He mentions a Ferris wheel and some bumper cars during "Everybodyâ€™s Got The Right" when talking to Fromme and Moore, and some productions go all in on the idea (one had an actual bumper car and a disembodied clown head on stage). What qualifies for this trope is that this amusement park somehow has eight people who want to kill the President running around.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
Assassins (Theatre) / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Booth and Zangara, in slightly different ways. Booth makes a lot of dramatic speeches, while Zangara yells at anyone or anything that bothers him.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Assassins (Theatre) / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Guiteau's "I am a terrifying and imposing figure!" is often followed by something not terrifying or imposing.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_685baef8	type	Decade Dissonance
Assassins (Theatre) / int_685baef8	comment	Decade Dissonance: Used for effect in the score.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_6b11ff57	type	Soapbox Sadie
Assassins (Theatre) / int_6b11ff57	comment	Soapbox Sadie: Fromme. She can't even have a simple chat with Sara Jane Moore without derailing into a totally serious rant about the evils of lipstick, fast food, football, etc.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Assassins (Theatre) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Booth repeats his "squeeze your little finger" line from "The Gun Song" when he convinces Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot John F. Kennedy.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_6d3dbe0e	type	Midword Rhyme
Assassins (Theatre) / int_6d3dbe0e	comment	Midword Rhyme: "How I Saved Roosevelt" contains a mid-letter rhyme, which when written down looks sort of like: From "The Gun Song":
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
Assassins (Theatre) / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: The Balladeer often injects his own views into the songs.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Assassins (Theatre) / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Part of the premise of the show. While it in no way condones the actions of the assassins, the show does depict the various environmental factors contributing to their acts. Byck's monologue about the confusing and hypocritical state of modern U.S. politics and Czolgosz's description of the brutal conditions of industrial labor are just two examples.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Assassins (Theatre) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The Proprietor does a Funny Foreigner impression of Zangara's accent, and displays a Stay in the Kitchen attitude towards Lynette and Sara Jane.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_72a6bff0	type	Eloquent in My Native Tongue
Assassins (Theatre) / int_72a6bff0	comment	Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Zangara, which is used to gorgeous dramatic effect in the Lee Harvey Oswald scene. He gives a dramatic speech in Italian trying to convince Oswald to shoot JFK, with the other assassins translating his words.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_74c9cf33	type	Two Girls to a Team
Assassins (Theatre) / int_74c9cf33	comment	Two Girls to a Team: Fromme and Moore are the only two female assassins in the group. Fitting, since they were also the only two women in history to try to kill an American President.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
Assassins (Theatre) / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: In some productions, the show ends with the assassins ceremoniously handing their guns down to the extras to carry on the tradition, just as the reprise of "Everybody's Got the Right" reaches its crescendo.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Assassins (Theatre) / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: In the opening:
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: "Unworthy of Your Love" is an interesting example, as it is more about Hinckley and Fromme's disturbed insecurity than about their love interests. It is essentially an "I Am" Song masquerading as an "I Want" Song.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_7986a111	type	Bonding over Missing Parents
Assassins (Theatre) / int_7986a111	comment	Bonding over Missing Parents: Fromme and Moore.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_79b5677	type	Belief Makes You Stupid
Assassins (Theatre) / int_79b5677	comment	Belief Makes You Stupid: The show depicts how belief in any ideology, even that of liberty, can cloud one's judgement and lead one to do things they would otherwise never have considered.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_7aea8bae	type	Murder Ballad
Assassins (Theatre) / int_7aea8bae	comment	Murder Ballad: The three assassins with eponymous ballads (see above) are the only three successful assassins, before Oswald in the final scene.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Assassins (Theatre) / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Sara Jane Moore is written to be played with no regard for the proper operation or storage of her .38 revolver. She accidentally discharges it no less than five times during the course of the show, once while it's still in her handbag, narrowly missing Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, once into the air when she's supposed to be clicking the hammer of an unloaded weapon in "The Gun Song," once when startled with her finger prematurely on the trigger, damaging Charles Guiteau's hearing in the process, and twice during two separate scene change blackouts, with the lights coming up on her scene the second time to reveal she's just accidentally shot her own dog.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Assassins (Theatre) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: All the assassins sans Czolgosz, the first to appear, get this in the opening number: Hinckley is enticed by the Proprietor's comments on how he can win Jodie Foster's heart and immediately tries to cut in front of Czolgosz, insisting that he was there first. Zangara enters groaning in pain from his stomach illness. Guiteau immediately responds to the Proprietor's suggestion to kill the president with a hearty, enthusiastic "Okay!" Byck just kinda drunkenly wanders on-stage in a Santa suit holding a picket sign. After the Proprietor makes some sexist comments about women handling guns, Fromme proceeds to pull a knife on him. Moore insists upon taking a gun, but immediately proceeds to ineptly fumble with it. Booth is given a dramatic, larger-than-life entrance which is announced by the Proprietor.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Assassins (Theatre) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Invoked by Guiteau in "The Gun Song".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_80d58c37	type	Hayseed Name
Assassins (Theatre) / int_80d58c37	comment	Hayseed Name: Combined with Gunman with Three Names, when John Wilkes Booth mentions this in a conversation with Lee Harvey Oswald while also referencing James Earl Ray, and referring to all three as "rednecks".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_80ef74c3	type	Fictionalized Death Account
Assassins (Theatre) / int_80ef74c3	comment	Fictionalized Death Account: John Wilkes Booth commits suicide when the barn is surrounded and set on fire. Some productions restore the historical version by having him shot by a Federal soldier.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Assassins (Theatre) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Guiteau is very loud and cheerful about pretty much everything he does.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: Dark version: "Everybody's Got the Right", where the assassins sing that everyone has the right to follow their dreams. It just so happens that their dreams involve assassinating presidents.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_839f38fa	type	Morality Ballad
Assassins (Theatre) / int_839f38fa	comment	Morality Ballad: The three ballads dedicated to Booth, Czolgosz, and Guiteau.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_88e5066d	type	Trigger-Happy
Assassins (Theatre) / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: All the protagonists, of course. In particular, Czolgosz, Booth, Moore, and Guiteau sing a paean to the power of guns.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Assassins (Theatre) / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Everyone except the Balladeer. Also, in the revival, the Balladeer - he is turned into into Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_89c664ac	type	Villainous Advice Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_89c664ac	comment	Villainous Advice Song: "Everybody's Got the Right." Okay, none of the assassins are "heroes," exactly, but the song is what convinces them to actually kill their respective presidents.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the American Dream. The assassins "dream" to kill their presidents in the land of opportunity. Additionally, much time is devoted to examining how the ethos of "work hard and you can achieve your goals and become rich" is not feasible when the socioeconomic system is corrupt and stacked against those of the lower classes.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	comment	Capitalism Is Bad: The show depicts capitalism and the American Dream as the true antagonistic forces of the show, being what drives all of the assassins to commit their heinous acts. Capitalism in particular drove Czolgosz to his crime and drove Zangara to his current state. Czolgosz elaborates on his view in his part of "The Gun Song", stating that many workers in the chain of production die in the process of creating consumer goods "to make the bosses richer", while Zangara blames his stomach problems on the hard labor required of a bricklayer.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Hinckley and Fromme. See above.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The timeline jumps everywhere. Not counting the in-between character building scenes, the assassinations/attempts are presented in the order of Lincoln, FDR, McKinley, Reagan, Garfield, Ford, Nixon, Kennedy. Historical order was Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, FDR, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Reagan—but that doesn't really fit with a proper dramatic structure. Lampshaded, or something like that with the ending. As pointed out, all but four of the assassins shown technically attempted their crimes well after Oswald shot JFK. Booth actually uses this to convince him to go through with it.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel: The Balladeer and the Proprietor serve as these to the Assassins; the former condemns their actions and dispenses The Reason You Suck Speeches, while the latter encourages their dark aspirations and even sells them their guns. The contrast is particularly clear during "Another National Anthem."
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: In the original off-Broadway production, there was frequently an audible gasp from the audience at the top of the final scene. After spending over an hour with the other assassins and their stories, the audience had become absorbed in them and had forgotten about the existence of Lee Harvey Oswald, until with a sudden crash they were confronted with the immediacy of the story, and the dramatization of a day many members of that 1991 audience remembered vividly.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8e575f83	type	Villain Recruitment Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8e575f83	comment	Villain Recruitment Song: The musical bits of "November 22, 1963", in which the assassins convince Lee Harvey Oswald to kill Kennedy.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: Zangara's plan to get rid of his stomach ache by assassinating the president of the United States. It did work!...in the sense that his pain ended with his death. Most of the assassins' plans boil down to "I want something, killing the president will help me get it". How crazy this idea is in context varies from assassin to assassin.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Moore and Byck, and to a lesser extent Fromme.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Assassins (Theatre) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Guiteau grows utterly desperate at the end of "The Ballad of Guiteau" when it finally dawns on him that he's about to be hanged, forcing out his deluded optimism as he climbs the stairs to the top of the scaffold and his death. Zangara becomes increasingly unhinged over the course of "How I Killed Roosevelt":
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Assassins (Theatre) / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Booth is polite and charming and very handsome. He's still a racist lowlife that murdered a president and (in the show), encourages others to do the same. Unlike, say, Guiteau, Booth's pleasantness is an act, made to serve his own ends.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_964c8ef4	type	Death Is Not Permanent
Assassins (Theatre) / int_964c8ef4	comment	Death Is Not Permanent: Used symbolically; the assassins don't die, because their acts have made them immortal.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Assassins (Theatre) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: John Wilkes Booth, for starting this whole mess in the first place (and, in the continuity of the play, creating Lee Harvey Oswald).
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Assassins (Theatre) / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Booth shoots himself to avoid being killed by the Union army.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Assassins (Theatre) / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Proprietor encourages all of the assassins to assassinate their respective presidents by saying that it will solve all of their problems.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_9c379ef0	type	Cross-Cast Role
Assassins (Theatre) / int_9c379ef0	comment	Cross-Cast Role: In the original, The Balladeer, apart from being referenced as 'boy' once by Booth, could be played as female.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Assassins (Theatre) / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: Kind of. In one of the last scenes of the show, Lee Harvey Oswald is visited by John Wilkes Booth, who is later joined by all of the other assassins (from both before and after 1963), encouraging Oswald to assassinate President Kennedy. It is unclear how exactly any of these historical figures ended up in 1963, or even if they're actually there at all.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Assassins (Theatre) / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: The show implies that even though "everybody's got the right to their dreams", you shouldn't necessarily try to achieve them when they're impossible or would seriously harm others.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Assassins (Theatre) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Several. The biggest one being the slowed-down, carnival waltz-like version of "Hail to the Chief", which plays at the opening of "Everybody's Got The Right," immediately before Booth assassinates Lincoln, when Emma Goldman delivers her speech, after each ballad and after Oswald has shot Kennedy. Another example is the "c'mere and kill a president" theme, which is heard again when the assassins are all chanting how they can "connect" in a free country, which subconsciously tells us exactly how they believe they can get around to doing that.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a040ed2e	type	Silly Love Songs
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a040ed2e	comment	Silly Love Songs: Expertly pastiched with "Unworthy of Your Love" (see above).
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: A possible interpretation of the Balladeer, starting with the 2004 version. He is the voice of morality and reason for most of the show, condemning the assassin's attempts, only to get overwhelmed by them and transform into Lee Harvey Oswald, who joins them in the finale.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Guiteau's above-mentioned Breaking the Fourth Wall and Sara Jane Moore's Rummage Fail in "The Gun Song." It's heavily contrasted with the sad, sombre portion of the song sung by Czolgoz about how many men are killed making a gun. Booth stopping his monologue about why he killed Lincoln to snap at the Balladeer, who's been mocking him throughout the ballad, to shut up. From the 2004 revival: Booth had just killed himself after a very dramatic solo. The Balladeer then enters to sing about how Booth was "off his head". Offended, John immediately springs back to life to give him an annoyed glare. Byck's monologues alternate rather rapidly between psychotically insane to hilarious to sad to angry and back to hilarious again. In general, most of the show is much more comedic (albeit in a dark way) than the final scene with Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a4e9a09e	type	Dude, Where's My Reward?
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a4e9a09e	comment	Dude, Where's My Reward?: The beginning of "Another National Anthem" has all of the assassins, led by Sam Byck, angrily demanding a "prize" for killing (or attempting to kill) their respective presidents, having been promised such earlier, but receiving nothing in the end. The Balladeer tries to explain why they didn't get their prize, but the assassins aren't having his answer.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Happens among the assassins at the end when Lee Harvey Oswald shoots JFK. The chorus... not so much.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Sara Jane Moore, by her own admission, is a terrible shot at her gun. Or the Russian army, in Hinckley's case of hitting President Ronald Reagan who survives (lampshaded by Reagan himself).
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: Booth hypothesises this as Oswald's motivation.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a842bb85	type	Churchgoing Villain
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a842bb85	comment	Church Going Villain: Former preacher Charles Guiteau, praying on his way to execution and claiming in court that God is as guilty as him.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
Assassins (Theatre) / int_a90f0639	comment	Entitled Bastard: Guiteau is described as someone who never "heard the word no," which is shown by his violent rage when Moore and Garfield reject him.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Assassins (Theatre) / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Sara Jane Moore attempts to bond with Lynette Fromme by using terms like "groovy" and "psychedelic". Fromme comments that she sounds like a narc.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Assassins (Theatre) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As the Balladeer points out, thanks to Booth, Abraham Lincoln went from a divisive figure to being considered one of America's greatest Presidents.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Assassins (Theatre) / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: John Hinckley was head over heels for actress Jodie Foster to the point where he attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_b2909c4f	type	Predecessor Villain
Assassins (Theatre) / int_b2909c4f	comment	Predecessor Villain: John Wilkes Booth, who paved the way for the other assassins, having successfully assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Assassins (Theatre) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore's attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford ends hilariously badly. First, Moore brings her dog and her son along for the job and accidentally shoots her dog. Second, Fromme and Moore argue about Moore's treatment of her son and briefly turn their guns on each other. Next, when Moore tries to prove to Fromme that her gun is loaded, she spills her bullets, which is when Gerald enters the scene and helps her pick them up. Finally, the two ladies don't recognize their target was right at their fingertips until he states his name, and when they do, Fromme tries to open fire, only for her gun to jam, and Moore tries to throw bullets at her target shouting "BANG! BANG!" as Ford leaves.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Assassins (Theatre) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Try not to remind Leon Czolgosz of the job where he boiled his lungs, fried his skin with burning glass, watched his friends die, and got paid six cents an hour just to make some lousy bottles. And whatever you do, don't break one of those bottles right in front of him, then dismiss it as "just a bottle". Guiteau is a real Casanova in his attempt to seduce Moore, but when her gun goes off near his head, he flips out. For Byck, it's cold hamburgers.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_bdf2a460	type	Tragic Dream
Assassins (Theatre) / int_bdf2a460	comment	Tragic Dream: All the Assassins have one of these.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Assassins (Theatre) / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Lee Harvey Oswald was about to kill himself before Booth and the others convinced him to shoot the President instead.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_c1d57cf7	type	"The Villain Sucks" Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_c1d57cf7	comment	"The Villain Sucks" Song: The aforementioned ballads. Interestingly, the only songs where the Balladeer outright criticizes the assassins are "Ballad Of Booth" and "Another National Anthem". In the others, he's more evenhanded, and in "Ballad Of Czolgosz", he paints a fairly sympathetic picture of Czolgosz. He still insults them more than a little, though.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Assassins (Theatre) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Zangara at the end of "How I Saved Roosevelt".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Assassins (Theatre) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The assassins themselves. As they say to Oswald during his song, "We're your family."
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_c59bf35a	type	Ballad of X
Assassins (Theatre) / int_c59bf35a	comment	Ballad of X: The Ballads of Booth, Guiteau and Czolgosz.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Assassins (Theatre) / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: John Wilkes Booth is a master of assuming shooting a president will solve his problems, being the originator of this entire sick tradition. After Zangara complains that nothing practical he's done has helped his stomach problems John Wilkes Booth asks if he's tried killing President Roosevelt. This particular exchange between Booth and Oswald.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Assassins (Theatre) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The first line the Balladeer sings in "The Ballad of Guiteau" is a shout-out to the American folk song "Charles Guiteau". Booth references the sad story of Willie Loman and compares the character to Oswald. (It's a bit of a Mind Screw: Booth is an actor, so of course he would be familiar with Salesman, if it hadn't been written 80 years after his death.) Sam Byck negatively quotes some of the lyrics to "America" from West Side Story, which Sondheim also wrote.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_c9df837a	type	Alternate Show Interpretation
Assassins (Theatre) / int_c9df837a	comment	Alternate Show Interpretation: The original production was off-Broadway at Playwright's Horizons. The Broadway production was the first time the idea of the Balladeer turning into Lee Harvey Oswald was implemented.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The play makes the assassins very sympathetic in some regards, especially Czolgosz, who wanted to kill McKinley in hopes of helping mistreated workers.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d2d18c7b	type	Confused Bystander Interview
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d2d18c7b	comment	Confused Bystander Interview: Half of the song "How I Saved Roosevelt" is bystanders who witnessed the attempted assassination of Roosevelt talking to the press and inflating their own importance in the event.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d2ddb362	type	ReasonYouSuckSpeech
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d2ddb362	comment	"Reason You Suck" Speech / Rousing Speech: The Balladeer's part of "Another National Anthem" manages to be both. It can be summed up as, "Yeah, you all suck right now, but there's still a chance for you to change and be better!" Naturally, it doesn't work.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Sara Jane Moore is ditzy, absent-minded, and fumbles with her gun. Her clumsiness becomes a major reason why her and Lynette Fromme's attempt on President Gerald Ford's life fails. Squeaky and Guiteau as well. The former is obsessed with Charles Manson and likes to rant about the supposed evils that things like lipstick and fried chicken pose to American society, and the latter plugs his book to the audience and is very cheerful about his planned assassination. Byck, especially in his monologues, where he rambles about Burger King's slogan in the same breath as West Side Story.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Booth and his associates. Besides trying to fulfill their dreams by depriving others of theirs, they fire into the audience, at least in some productions. As Booth said, "adulterers and shopkeepers get murdered" when differentiating himself and Oswald from murderers. Plenty of them probably in the audience.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Both Czolgosz and Fromme are portrayed by black actors in the Chichester Festival production. This version's concept somewhat justifies the casting, as the assassins are now nameless, modern day citizens who are invited onstage to represent the characters.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Lee Harvey Oswald says this when he's told to shoot the president. The person he's talking to really doesn't care, responding "Maybe I am. So what?"
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d9391535	type	Villain Love Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d9391535	comment	Villain Love Song: "Unworthy of Your Love" is unique in that the two singers (Hinckley and Fromme) are not singing to each other but to different people entirely - (Jodie Foster and Charles Manson, respectively).
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_d97f6f0c	type	Musicalis Interruptus
Assassins (Theatre) / int_d97f6f0c	comment	Musicalis Interruptus: Played for drama during "The Ballad of Guiteau", where Guiteau snaps back to reality twice just before he can finish singing his ditty, and then a third time even earlier— this being the point where it becomes clear to him that nothing is going to save him from the gallows. Some versions even have the noose he gets hanged from drop at that point.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Assassins (Theatre) / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Squeaky Fromme is in love with "Charlie" Manson.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Assassins (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: Every single song. The music invokes every kind of warm, homespun Americana you can think of, while the lyrics turn that vision of America on its head. Special mention goes out to a variation on â€œHail to the Chiefâ€� being used in the opening and closing numbers. â€œHow I Saved Rooseveltâ€� is essentially lyrics set to â€œThe Washington Post Marchâ€� and â€œEl Capitanâ€�.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_dd22df26	type	Hands-On Approach
Assassins (Theatre) / int_dd22df26	comment	Hands-On Approach: Guiteau gets very handsy with Sara Jane Moore while giving her shooting tips, eventually asking her for a kiss which she rejects.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Assassins (Theatre) / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Most of the assassins have already passed this point by the time they come onstage. Lampshaded by Booth when Oswald tries to justify killing himself.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Assassins (Theatre) / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Ronald Reagan cracks jokes at John Hinckley while the latter is shooting at him.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Assassins (Theatre) / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Moore and Hinckley. as well as Fromme to some extent.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e0113647	type	Decon-Recon Switch
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e0113647	comment	Decon-Recon Switch: The show builds up sympathy for many of the Assassins by showing what horrible lives many of them had, how much they all love the American dream, and the excellent points they raise, making it seem like maybe the Assassins aren't as bad as we think they're supposed to be. Then Booth, who started it all, talks about how he killed Lincoln for being a "nigger-lover" and we see the dozens of bystanders who are traumatized by the psychological damage coming from the assassination of JFK, and we're reminded that yes, while the American dream may have some flaws and many of the Presidents haven't accidentally been saints, the Assassins are still violently unhealthy maniacs, many of them are bigots, and shooting the President is not going to change anything - the fact that they're the protagonists doesn't make the Assassins not the bad guys.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e069fae8	type	Bad Guy Bar
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e069fae8	comment	Bad Guy Bar: The assassins spend most of the time in between assassination scenes drinking, hanging out, and plotting said assassinations in a bar.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: The Balladeer gets attacked by the assassins in "Another National Anthem", and is either driven off the stage (off-Broadway version) or transformed into Lee Harvey Oswald (Broadway version). Also, in some productions, at the end of the play, the assassins point their guns at the audience and fire.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Each of the assassins go from average, down-trodden American citizens to President killers.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Sara Jane Moore's characterization essentially boils down to this, as she accidentally fires her gun multiple times throughout the course of the show and is very awkward during her conversation with Fromme.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e2de05e8	type	Throw the Book at Them
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e2de05e8	comment	Throw the Book at Them: During "November 22, 1963", Oswald asks Booth, "This is stupid. Up here on the sixth floor, what would I do? Throw school books at him?"
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': Naturally, the targets of the failed assassinations.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Some assassins such as John Hinckley Junior and Squeaky Fromme were off their rocker and attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford respectively.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e680af6f	type	Grief Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e680af6f	comment	Grief Song: "Something Just Broke", where the American people grieve for the victims of the assassinations.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_e86cf1cf	type	Gunman with Three Names
Assassins (Theatre) / int_e86cf1cf	comment	Gunman with Three Names: Lampshaded in a chilling moment between John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald. Bonus points for that being the first time we hear Oswald's full name. (Booth has, up to this point, just called him "Lee.")
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
Assassins (Theatre) / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: A comedic version.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_ec90f86f	type	Bomb-Throwing Anarchists
Assassins (Theatre) / int_ec90f86f	comment	Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Averted. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley, is one of the main characters, and there is a detailed examination of the cause of his radical beliefs - namely, the horrid conditions in factories encouraged by lack of governmental regulation of industry in the Gilded Age, which were the impetus for real-life anarchist activity in the time period. He comes across as the most sympathetic of the assassins, with the most understandable motivation for his actions. Also, he didn't throw bombs; he shot McKinley.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_ecf76ce6	type	Decapitated Army
Assassins (Theatre) / int_ecf76ce6	comment	Decapitated Army: Played With, as Booth believes that having killed Lincoln, the Civil War can finally end. In real life, the South had already surrendered when Booth decided to kill Lincoln. However, Booth seems to believe that Lincoln was responsible for the division of the country, as opposed to the real issue of slavery.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_ecfbba60	type	Fee Fi Faux Pas
Assassins (Theatre) / int_ecfbba60	comment	Fee Fi Faux Pas: During "The Ballad of Czolgosz," several bystanders - awed by President McKinley - describe him as 'round and prosperous' as well as excitedly discussing his penchant for eating beef and collecting coins... all in front of the poor anarchist planning to kill him.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Assassins (Theatre) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted, there are two Johns (Booth and Hinckley), and two Charlies if you count Charles Manson.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_ee9bf817	type	Sanity Slippage Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_ee9bf817	comment	Sanity Slippage Song: Any song containing the word "Ballad" in its title.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: The Chichester Festival Theatre's modernized production splits the Balladeer into three news anchors. It still follows in the footsteps of previous versions by turning one of them into Lee Harvey Oswald at the end.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: "How I Saved Roosevelt".
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f2802897	type	Tyrannicide
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f2802897	comment	Tyrannicide: John Wilkes Booth believes he is doing this when he kills Abraham Lincoln, comparing the situation to Julius Caesar.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: Guiteau asks Moore to show him her form, as in, how she shoots, not her body shape.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f2a6d76d	type	Rage Against the Author
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f2a6d76d	comment	Rage Against the Author: The song "Another National Anthem" has elements of this, culminating in the Assassins running the Balladeer off the stage (in the original version) or turning him into one of them (in the revival, where he becomes Lee Harvey Oswald). Also, a minor reflexive example: one of Sam Byck's tirades is aimed at Leonard Bernstein and Byck angrily quotes the lyrics of West Side Story (specifically, the song "America") back at him. Those lyrics were, of course, written by Stephen Sondheim.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Zigzagged and Downplayed On the one hand, the assassins' motives are mostly sympathetic, and the power structure put in place is depicted as corrupt. On the other hand, their actions are condemned and the show ultimately suggests that peaceful, democratic transition is the best way to change a bad system, not acts of political violence.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: "Everybody's Got The Right". After the events of the show, the song gains new meaning. "Something Just Broke" serves as a symbolic one to "How I Saved Roosevelt." In "Roosevelt," various bystanders in Florida are interviewed about the attempted assassination of FDR, bragging about their own (highly embellished) actions and making themselves sound like heroes. In "Something Just Broke," the same bystanders return...only now JFK is dead, and instead of cheerfully talking about how they saved the day, they're stunned and saddened as they speak about the precise time when they heard the news, and how they'll never be able to forget that specific moment.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f642b1f9	type	You Bastard!
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f642b1f9	comment	You Bastard!: When Zangara yells "No laugh! No funny!" at the audience. Even the music stops.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: At least, if you ask our protagonists and the Proprietor. The Balladeer's part of "Another National Anthem" is smashing this trope to pieces. The assassins don't listen to him.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: John Hinckley Jr. and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, as seen in "Unworthy of Your Love" - both want to assassinate their respective presidents because they believe the target of their obsessions will appreciate it. To a lesser extent, Czolgosz. He had an unreciprocated crush on Emma Goldman, who gave him the idea of becoming an anarchist.
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Assassins (Theatre) / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Byck is not a very good driver, though he manages to not have much issue keeping in his lane throughout his second monologue. In response to a car horn at the start, however, he yells "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts!".
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