Full company announced for Sondheim's ASSASSINS at Chichester Festival Theatre

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Full casting has been announced for the first major production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Assassins since the composer’s death in 2021, which runs at Chichester Festival Theatre from 3-24 June.

Directed by Polly Findlay, the cast includes Amy Booth-Steel (Tammy Faye) as Moore, Daniel Bowskill (Let’s Face The Music) as Onstage Swing, Luke Brady (The Prince of Egypt) as Zangara, Lizzy Connolly (Sweet Charity) as Balladeer 2, Ivan De Freitas (& Juliet) as Bystander 2, Carly Mercedes Dyer (Olivier Award nominee and WhatsOnStage Award winner for Anything Goes) as Fromme, Peter Forbes (Follies) as The Proprietor, Bob Harms (Pretty Woman) as Bystander 1, Harry Hepple (Hamilton) as Guiteau, Nick Holder (The Threepenny Opera) as Byck, Charlotte Jaconelli (The Wizard of Oz) as Goldman, Danny Mac (Sunset Boulevard) as Booth, Kody Mortimer (Hex) as Bystander 4, Sam Oladeinde (Come From Away) as Czolgosz, Jaimie Pruden (Beauty and the Beast) as Onstage Swing, Jack Shalloo (Girl From The North Country) as Hinckley, Liam Tamne (Wuthering Heights) as Balladeer 1, and Samuel Thomas (The Normal Heart) as Oswald/Balladeer 3.

Assassins is full of high drama, with musical influences ranging from The Carpenters and James Taylor to American folk songs and Scott Joplin. With music and lyrics by Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, this Tony Award-winning biting musical comedy takes us on a daring, time-bending journey through American history.

A surreal carnival. And a group of people who have one thing in common: they want to assassinate the President of the United States.

Some succeed, some fail. But there’s a prize for them all: a place in the history books.

John Wilkes Booth. Lee Harvey Oswald. Leon Czolgosz. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. John Hinckley. Charles Guiteau. Sara Jane Moore. Giuseppe Zangara. Samuel Byck. Men and women whose fervour took them to the very edge.

For audiences, the experience will begin as soon as they step into the theatre foyer, where smells, sights and sounds will sweep them into the carnival.

The production is designed by Lizzie Clachan, with choreography by Neil Bettles, musical supervision by Richard John, musical direction by Jo Cichonska, orchestrations by Michael Starobin, lighting by Richard Howell, sound by Gregory Clarke, video design by Akhila Krishnan, and casting by Charlotte Sutton CDG and Christopher Worrall.

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