Sometimes "interesting failures" are still just failures . . .
The crazy kids of AssassinsAh, the "interesting failure." Every major theatrical artist has one, even Shakespeare - and Stephen Sondheim has a couple - among which Assassins, from 1990, has always been particularly prominent. I think there's just something so outré about the concept of this revue (I guess it's a revue) that it has exerted a kind of siren call over the musical theatre even though - well, …