Notes from the Tony Press Room - Michael Cerveris
American Theatre Web
June 7, 2004

photo by Bruce Glikas


Michael Cerveris, when asked about how long Assassins would be running, smiled and said that "it looks as if we're going to go at least through early October." Will he be staying through October? "Yes." Although with some time off for the Sunday in the Park with George concert with Audra McDonald and Patti Lupone at Ravinia outside of Chicago.

Of Assassins Cerveris said that the musical "doesn't have a political agenda. To me it represents the essence of American freedom of speech and democracy." He smiled when asked about the Republican National Convention that would be coming to the City in August. He joked, saying ""I'd personally like to invite every Republican who will be in town to come and see our show. It's not a Democratic show, it's why as a country we have produced a group of people who felt that it was necessary to go to such lengths to achieve happiness.

He mused on the meaning of Assassins positing "Does our inalienable right to our own happiness...lay the seeds for potentially disastrous events?"

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