Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Assassins at the West Coast Ensemble

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By Tristan Fuge • Jun 11, 2008 • Los Angeles

Richard Israel

Full cast and creative team has been announced for West Coast Ensemble's production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins, July 8-August 31, at El Centro Theatre in Hollywood. Directed by Richard Israel, the show will feature musical direction by Johanna Kent.

The musical is a bold, surreal, and darkly humorous examination of presidential assasination attempts throughout the history of the United States from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald.

The cast will feature Sterling Beaumon, Christopher Davis Carlisle, Steve Connor, Andrea Covell, Jim Holdridge, Beth Lane, Larry Lederman, David Nadeau, John O'Brien, Darrin Revitz, Dana Reynolds, and Shannon Stoeke.

The creative team will include Stephen Gifford (set design), Lisa D. Katz (lighting design), Cricket S. Myers (sound design), and A. Jeffrey Schoenberg (costume design).

For more information, call 323-460-4443 or visit westcoastensemble.org.