NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Stephen Sondheim's controversial musical "Assassins" will have its long-delayed Broadway premiere in April, its producers announced Wednesday.
The show, about the men and women who have attempted with or without success to kill a president of the United States, had a brief run off-Broadway in 1991, victim of mixed to negative reviews.
It was not transferred to a Broadway theater as originally planned, possibly as a result of patriotic fervor engendered by the Gulf War in Iraq. Sondheim is reported to have reworked the show in the intervening years.
"Assassins" will be staged at the Studio 54 theater by the non-profit Roundabout Theater Company, which recently has become a major Broadway producer. The company has a large number of subscribing members that guarantees a respectable run despite the risk that the current post-war situation in Iraq might affect the popularity of a show with an admitted touchy theme.
