Jane Fiore Bigelow directs a fantastically sharp orchestra, doing perfect justice to a difficult score. If one had to pick a single element of this show to praise, it has to be the caliber and quality of musical and vocal direction. Gendreau is right on target in his demeanor and delivery of lines and music, and consistently conveys the common man/awesome Messiah dichotomy. He exudes his own charisma, as an actor and that of a Christ figure. For information and reservations, call Little Theatre's box offioe at (508) 675-1852.This production brings Aaron Gendreau back to the stage as an intelligent and compassionate Jesus. "Assassins" contains strong language and situations. Tickets are $12, $10 for seniors and students, and $5 for children 12 and under. Thursday through Saturday evenings and at 2 p.m. The run of "Assassins" continues at the Little Theatre of Fall River's Firebarn at 320 Prospect St., Fall River at 8 p.m. Julius Franco, Rob Sirois and Kenny Ettress. Presidents Garfield and Ford are played by Bing McGrath and Ron Robinson, and the standers are played by Marie Savoie, Holly Ashley, H. Jane Fiore-Bigelow (musical director) plays Emma Goldman, while Kenny Effress appears as the Proprietor and Bartender. Ashley brings a comforting presence to the action, sometimes even thankfully stopping it, to interject or even to derail the emotion of the moment. Supporting cast members include John Ashley as the Balladeer. Baptista is frighteningly quiet and appropriately low-keyed, except, of course, when he is professing his obsessive love and devotion to actress Jodie Foster. Gregory Baptista portrays John Hinckley, the man who seriously injured Ronald Reagan and who, in the process, also sentenced Press Secretary Jim Brady to lifelong disability. She strikes a balance between ruthless criminal and devoted angel. McCartney is wonderful as the headstrong Squeaky Fromme. Burke does a five-second take, scoops up a handful of bullets and flings them in the air at the disappearing back of Gerald Ford, shrieking, "Bang! Bang!"Īs flaky as Mrs. A man comes up behind them offering help. She and Squeaky dive to the floor to retrieve them.
When Moore flubs one last time and spills the contents of her purse, loose bullets roll like jellybeans across the floor. More humor surfaces here, when the unlikely duo can't perfect a plan to shoot Gerald Ford.
Robbie Morgan Burke as Sarah Jane Moore teams with Christine McCartney as Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Charles Manson's willing acolyte.
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Belanger, seedy and unshaven in a filthy Santa Claus suit, spews into a portable recorder his psychosocial gripes to "Dick." In a monologue drenched in blaok humor, Mr. Belanger is a strong actor, but really excels at comedy. Jeff Belanger, as Sam ck, who aimed shots at Richard Nixon, brings characteristic professionalism to the role. Giuseppe Zangara, who attempted to shoot Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is portrayed by David Faria, who never once strays from maniacal determination. McConaghy's presentation of this assassin is almost more startling and provocative than the black and white television and newspaper images etched in our minds, of an otherwise unremarkable man named Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald is meticulously played by Sean McConaghy, who has this particular assassin's demeanor and mannerisms eerily down pat. In the final montage of the play, it is Booth who goads Lee Harvey Oswald to action. He presents a charming, bullying, angry man who won't stop until the trigger is pulled. Wrobleski carefully constructs John Wilkes Booth for us. The theme that we live in a "free country" abounds in lines and dialogue that point to the act of assassination as a right, a responsibility, as home-grown as the concept of freedom itself. The angry, strongly stated sentiment underlies a self-granted permission, if not an obligation, to right the politics of the day by eliminating the nation's highest political figure. "What I did was kill the man who killed my country," says John Wilkes Booth. The opening musical number spouts the lyrics, "Everybody's got a right to their dream." The accompanying stage picture reveals a table spread with an array of handguns. and how anyone can grow up and shoot a president." "It's about the haves and have-nots," explained Little Theatre President Beverly Robinson. The script attempts to present these true personalities as accurately as humanly possible.
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