The Toughest Cut on Any Original Cast Album by Peter Filichia

"Fifty years from now, they'll still be arguing about the grassy knoll, the Mafia, some Cuban crouched behind a stockade fence." The lines come from a surreal scene in Assassins. Twenty-seven year-old John Wilkes Booth, ninety-eight years dead, is encouraging twenty-four-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot President John F. Kennedy. John Weidman wrote those words some time in 1990, around twenty-seven years after t…

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