Stephen Sondheim's Assassins in the Archive
(Animation from photos by Martha Swope) The superstitious might, with some evidence, argue that when a major New York production of Assassins is announced, it's time to get very nervous. The original production opened off-Broadway in December of 1990, and its failure to move to Broadway has been blamed in part on a surge of patriotic sentiment as the first Gulf War began in January of 1991. Twenty years later, a Bro…