Assassins

Original Cast

1991: RCA Victor 60737-2-RC

1. Everybody’s Got the Right
2. The Ballad of Booth
3. How I Saved Roosevelt
4. Gun Song
   The Balld of Czolgosz
5. Unworthy of Your Love
6. The Ballad of Guiteau
7. Another National Anthem
8. November 22, 1963
9. Final Sequence: “You Can Close the New York Stock Exchange,” Everybody’s Got the Right

“Everybody’s got the right to some sunshine
Not the sun, but maybe one of its beams….”

A chiller more than a thriller, but a thrilling look into terrible dark waters.

The assassins’s song of aggressive, murder-justifying entitlement that opens the musical is disturbingly similar to the motifs of people who voted for Donald Trump in 2016. “I’m aggrieved, so everybody should suffer for it and everything must be harmed.”

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