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Sondheim and Original Assassins Cast Will Reunite for 30th Anniversary Event

Original company member Patrick Cassidy will host the show, which will be presented by his Studio Tenn Theatre Company.

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Annie Golden, Jonathan Hadary, Debra Monk, Terrence Mann, Victor Garber, Lee Wilkof, Eddie Korbich, Greg Germann, and William Parry in Assassins at Playwrights Horizons, circa 1990
Annie Golden, Jonathan Hadary, Debra Monk, Terrence Mann, Victor Garber, Lee Wilkof, Eddie Korbich, Greg Germann, and William Parry in Assassins at Playwrights Horizons, circa 1990
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Patrick Cassidy will reunite the original cast and creative team of Assassins to mark the show's 30th anniversary, with a free event taking place on Monday, March 8 at 8pm ET.

Cassidy and fellow original cast members Victor Garber, Greg Germann, Annie Golden, Lyn Greene, Jonathan Hadary, Eddie Korbich, Terrence Mann, Debra Monk, William Parry, and Lee Wilkof will be joined by writers Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, director Jerry Zaks, musical director Paul Gemignani, and orchestrator Michael Starobin for a conversation about the show's creation, complete with rarely seen clips and images.

The event will be presented by the Studio Tenn Theatre Company in Franklin, Tennessee, for which Cassidy serves as artistic director. Assassins premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in December 1990 and closed in February 1991.

The Assassins reunion event will be available here.

Read our appraisal of Assassins at 30 here.