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Company One presents…
ASSASSINS
Music by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
“Mr. Sondheim's astonishing score takes staples of American folk, pop and ceremonial music and turns
them inside out...Listening, as sweet notes slide into dissonance, you may feel as if your own
brain has slipped off the rails.” – New York Times
Just in time for the 2008 elections— Part vaudeville extravaganza, part exposé and
wholly electrifying, this Tony-award winning musical reveals uneasy truths about the
American Dream. An investigation into the personalities of nine individuals who
attempted to assassinate a President of the United States. Assassins is
Stephen Sondheim's ode to the underbelly of American history.
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What:
Stephen Sondheim's ASSASSINS, with book by John Weidman
Where:
July 11-August 9. Wed & Thurs @ 7:30pm, Fri & Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 2pm
**Opening Weekend Pre-show Event - Saturday, July 12th**
Where:
Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre. 539 Tremont St, South End
Tickets:
On Sale NOW
Thursdays & Sundays $30-$35, Fridays & Saturdays $33-$38
Students (with ID) $15, Seniors $30
**Wild Wednesdays- ALL TICKETS $18**
Pay What You Can Performance (min $6)- Sunday, July 13th
Box Office:
Phone: 617.933.8600
Web: www.BostonTheatreScene.com
Walk-up: Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St.
OR Boston University Theatre Box Office, 264 Huntington Ave.
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WALKER COMES
HOME: Company One’s ASSASSINS features the onstage professional debut of Liz
Walker’s son, Nik Walker.
When Nik Walker appears in Company One’s production of
ASSASSINS this summer, it will be the fulfillment of one of his longtime
dreams. Growing up, Walker, the son of former WBZ anchor and local
celebrity turned humanitarian missionary Liz Walker, was always encouraged
to pursue his interests. Now that he is a budding young performer, he is
excited about his artistic homecoming.
“ASSASSINS is probably one of my favorite shows,”
remarked Walker, “and for some reason, I have always been drawn to the
Balladeer as the role I would want to play. I’ve been coming to Company One
shows since I was a freshman at Brookline High,” continued Walker, “so to
have my professional Boston debut doing [ASSASSINS] as part of a Company One
main stage show is an honor.”
Mr. Walker will be making his Boston debut with
ASSASSINS, though, as he revealed, it is technically his professional debut
as an adult, having worked in a string of performances with the Wheelock
Family Theatre when he was in second grade. “My mom put me into [Wheelock]
because I had a lot of energy and needed somewhere to vent it. My first
show there was Winnie the Pooh.” Mr. Walker has also toured as one of the
founding members of Company One’s educational performance ARTiculation, a
hip-hop performance poetry piece with original work by Walker and the other
members of the troupe.
Having come a long way since his grade-school days,
Walker is now studying as an undergraduate at the prestigious Tisch School
of the Performing Arts at New York University. The program is notorious for
being rough on young talent, destroying egos and preparing them for the
rigors of a career in the acting world. The acting syllabus is designed
around internships, with each student taking on an apprenticeship of study
at established studios throughout the city. Now heading into his Junior
year at NYU, Walker will switch from the renowned Stella Adler Conservatory,
where he has been studying for the past two years, to the Classical Studio,
where he will engage in an entire year studying Shakespeare and his
contemporaries.
Though he has had moments of panic and disillusion
during his study, Walker is keeping a level head. “I am really focused on
putting as much as my energy as possible into this work,” says Walker.
“I’ve spent many Friday nights – while my cohorts are out chugging beer and
partying – just studying lines alone in my room.” The commitment to the
work has paid off so far, as Walker has been involved in a number of
productions in New York, including a recent mounting of Suzan-Lori Parks’
Top Dog / Under Dog.
Although he is happy with his successful beginnings in
New York, and has plans to continue to build a career there, Walker is
exuberant about the opportunity to come back to Boston for ASSASSINS.
“Boston is my home,” Walker points out, “so I am psyched to be coming back
here for this show. My mom is also happy to have a show to come see and
actually bring people to.” Pushed on this point, Walker explained, “Well
first, New York is a long way, so it’s not that easy for [my mom] to get a
group of people together to go down there to see me in something. Also,”
Walker continued, “a lot of what I’ve done so far in New York has been
pretty raucous, including things that I haven’t necessarily been comfortable
with my mom seeing me do on stage. So one reason I’m happy to be doing
[ASSASSINS] is that I can actually have my mom come see it;” an especially
important point, since Liz Walker’s role in her son’s life has been greatly
influential for him. “She’s been the biggest support for me in my life.
She’s been everything.”
Nik Walker stars as The Balladeer in Company One’s
production of ASSASSINS, playing July 11 – August 9 at the Boston Center for
the Arts. For more information, or to arrange coverage, please contact
Mason Sand, Director of Public Relations, at 617.230.6753 or msand@companyone.org.
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Everybody’s Got
the Right
Stephen Sondheim’s
ASSASSINS, being produced by Company One at the Boston Center for the Arts
July 11 – August 9, had its New York premiere in 1991, but its relevance, as
the U.S. heads towards a landmark presidential election, is stunning.
ASSASSINS, which portrays all of the U.S. presidential assassins and
would-be assassins throughout history, speaks clearly to a thought that, no
matter how seemingly arcane, is embedded in our social conscious: that the
“American Dream” still exists and that we all have a right to it.
In this time of
political sweeps, many of us get caught up in vote-counts and overlook the
numbers that are not counted: the single mother who did not have time to get
to the polls; the ex-convict whose right to vote has been taken away; the
hard-working, blue collar, | 
