First Time Watching Assassins! The Ballad of Booth (Reaction) : Behind the Curve Reacts

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Hello everyone, thank you all so much for stopping by the channel! We're gonna be taking a look at the musical Assassins thanks to my newest patron Augustine For Life.
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@jaydee970 9 ай бұрын

"I don't know who wrote the music (or the book) or the lyrics to this but I'd bet that they're pretty prolific." Is probably my favorite line in any YT reaction video ever.

@cryan9688 Жыл бұрын

This was such a fun reaction to watch! Assassins is one of my favorite musicals; it does a really good job of humanizing the characters, while never letting you forget their crimes for too long. I'd recommend checking out How I Saved Roosevelt or Ballad of Guiteau, those two songs both have really fun tonal shifts throughout! :)

@ajmalaika1287 9 ай бұрын

YES, I feel like the “ensemble” song like Roosevelt get ignored but they are haunting especially Something Just Broke

@augustineforlife Жыл бұрын

Hey! AugustineForLife here. Assassins covers the US assassins, attempted and successful. NPH was in the technically original Broadway production as Lee Harvey Oswald but really the first production was Off-Broadway which you see the performers of here. It’s a great show and it was so cool to see his reaction!

@composerbeef 10 ай бұрын

That's the genius of this show. It makes you sympathise with these people before reminding you about what they did.

@katetoldness4220 Жыл бұрын

Assassins is my favorite musical of all time! And it is a Stephen Sondheim. I am going to second some others saying The Ballad of Guiteau. You've got to love a song with the lyric: "Charlie said, 'hell. if I am guilty, then God is as well!' But God was acquitted, and Charlie committed until he should hang! Still, he sang!" There isn't a lot of pro-shoot stuff available so you may have to react to some lower quality footage but still so worth it!

@BrittanySmith-nm3yl Жыл бұрын

This was a great reaction! I love this musical and just leove hearing Sondheim's music in it. I recommend The Ballad of Guiteau. It's definitely one of my favorites from the show. Can't wait for the next reaction!

@asmith9349 Жыл бұрын

Yes, I would definitely agree The Ballad of Guiteau is a MUST LISTEN! It’s so ridiculous and amazing and always blows me away. I love most of the songs from this musical so much.

@malachiswedberg8367 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting hearing you watch and not realizing it is a Sondheim show, fun to see your first look.

@tonyyoung3985 Жыл бұрын

Every song in Assassins was composed to fit the time period, so it was more folk ballad than country hoedown. Twenty years later, Guiteau's hanging was a spiritual revival. You're right about the tone shifts. It wasn't until the balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald were combined that the play felt more cohesive. And what was really cool? I saw a high school production, and there were students who were conspiracy nuts who loved the entire show.

@ajmalaika1287 9 ай бұрын

Also Victor Garber is just insane, he was in a folk group, musical theatre actor, film and tv. Man’s a triple threat

@victorvaldez8869 Жыл бұрын

About the tonal shifts in the play, you're right about that. It's could be called a "comedic tragedy" especially where some of the attempted assassins come in. There's a fictionalized scene in which Sara Jane Moore & Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme both comedically & hilariously attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford. In reality both were two separate incidents, but Sondheim conflates them in a slapstick mash up despite them being 17 days apart in 1975 in reality.

@kathyastrom1315 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite musicals! I’ve never seen it on stage, but after seeing the Sondheim tribute concert that this video from, I bought the album and played it nonstop. I would love to play Sara Jane Moore someday-she’s completely bonkers. “Callahan” is the wonderful Victor Garber!! If you want to see him even younger, check out his performance as Jesus in the film Godspell from about twenty years before this video. He is fantastic there. I was lucky enough to see him on stage in They’re Playing Our Song in the ‘80s. He has been in lots of non-musical films, too, most notably Titanic.

@rebeccaserfass3777 Жыл бұрын

This is such a powerful show. I got to see the revival with NPH and was fortunate enough to play Sara Jane Moore in a production. Absolutely moves me to tears every time I see it. Brilliant stuff.

@CinnamonQuills Жыл бұрын

The Ballad of Guiteau is also an awesome watch, especially from the 2004 revival with Neil Patrick Harris and Denis O'Hare (Russell Edgington on True Blood and a regular on American Horror Story) but the only versions of it out there are reaaaally dodgy in terms of quality. Still worth seeking out, though!

@timothysmith7888 5 ай бұрын

What was your reaction when you eventually learned that the late, great Stephen Sondheim wrote the score/lyrics for ASSASSINS?

@karentecott640 Жыл бұрын

This is a show about the part of the American character that makes people believe they are justified in assasinating leaders. The banality of evil and the ethos that "Everybody's Got the Right to be Happy." It's a Sondheim musical. Failed here right after 9/11. The Brits recognized its brilliance. The song styles are ones that were prevalent when the assassins were living. Victor Garbor was the original Jesus in Godspell and did many, many musicals. Garber was the original Booth. Neil was the balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald in the next revival. This will explain some. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i7Zkidqe3NGtYZc.html

@michaelwilliamybarra2409 11 ай бұрын

He even originated the role of Anthony in Sweeney Todd(which is, of course, Sondheim's most recognized work as a composer/lyricist) as well!

@michaelwilliamybarra2409 11 ай бұрын

Also, Fun Fact: The actor who plays John Wilkes Booth in that performance you cited(as well as the 2004 Broadway production itself), Michael Cerveris, would wind up playing in the same role/character/show that Garber himself originated over the years! As I mentioned Garber originated Anthony in Sweeney Todd while Cerveris would star in the title role in the 2005 actor musician revival with Patti Lupone as Mrs. Lovett(and also Alexander Gemignani[who played John Hinkley Jr. in the 2004 revival and is himself the son of Sondheim's most frequently collaborating music director, Paul Gemignani] as Beadle Bamford). Garber famously starred as Mr. Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic, while Cerveris was playing Mr. Andrews in Titanic the Musical which was playing on Broadway THAT SAME YEAR Cameron's movie premiered, 1997(also the year I was born)! Garber even went on to play Wilson Mizner in on of the earliest incarnations of Sondheim's last musical in life about the Mizner brothers "Gold" (with John Weidman, the same playwright of this show Assassins, and also Pacific Overtures!), while Cerveris played that same role in the show's current incarnation "Road Show" at the Public Theatre Off-Broadway in 2008(again, along side Alexander Gemingnani as Addison Mizner)!

@gracehowell. 6 ай бұрын

Victor Garber has played Daddy Warbucks in 'Annie' (1993) and the king in 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella' (1997). Patrick Cassidy KIND OF appears in 'The Music Man', because Shirley Jones was pregnant with him while they filmed the movie.

@Savannah_Simpson Жыл бұрын

If you’re interested in seeing Victor Garber in a more “good guy” roll. I highly recommend the tv show Alias. He plays the main characters father and in my opinion it is some of his best work.

@michaelwilliamybarra2409 11 ай бұрын

He also originated the role of Anthony in the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd(though no accessible bootlegs have emerged, you can hear him on the Broadway Cast Album), and played Jesus in the film adaptation of Godspell(by composer/Lyricist Stephen Schwartz[Wicked, Pippin, Prince of Egypt, etc. as well as the lyrics for Disney's Enchanted, Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame]). For other historical figures, he's also well known for playing Mr. Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.

@coalhouse1981 7 ай бұрын

NPH was the revival 2004 cast

@_purble 29 күн бұрын

Yep, but the original production was off-Broadway, so technically NPH was in the original Broadway cast

@Auryanne 7 ай бұрын

I saw it in a local theater and loved it!

@horrorhistory7342 Жыл бұрын

I love assassins and highly recommend the 2004 version with NPH. There is a version on KZfaq with not so great audio and visual quality but it has subtitles hardwired into it.

@impastomusic Жыл бұрын

Such a fun look at a song from one of my favourite shows. If you’d like to react to another song, search for “Something Just Broke” and “5th Avenue” on KZfaq. The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle produced the show back in 2016, and this song is about JFK. It wasn’t in the original off-Broadway production, but added later for the Broadway production (which was originally scheduled to debut in 2001 but was postponed because of 9/11, so it opened in 2004).

@michaelwilliamybarra2409 11 ай бұрын

Actually, "Something Just Broke" was added to the show for it's London premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in 1992(a year after the 1991 Off Broadway production and Cast album, in which Garber stared). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLB4atmlutuymo0.html Still annoying how the Tony's denied the Broadway production it's chance to compete for Best Musical by designating it as a "Revival(which it thankfully won the Tony Award for Best Revival for along with 4 others, but still)".