xX... Wow! So many responses on last chapter! And lot's about the show Assassins itself. Well, I'll give ya a little history. Assassins premiered at the York Theater Club in 1991 staring Victor Garber (the bad guy from Legally Blonde 1) as John Wilkes Booth. It was diss-ed by critics and theatergoers who called it 'un-patriotic'. So, composer Stephen Sondheim put Assassins on the shelf. In 1993 a British man named Sam Mendes took control of a theater group called Dormore Warehouse in London. He wanted to premier Assassins there. So, Sondheim buckled down and wrote a new song, Something Just Broke. The show was a smash sensation and it ran for a while. Than, in 1991 a young director named Joe Mantello approached Sondheim about doing a revival ON BROADWAY! Sondheim said, "kick ass!" and they prepared the show, they got great actors like Neil Patrick Harris (featured in Lost and Found) and Becky Ann Baker to play rolls. The opening night was set for September 13, 2001. Than, on September 11th, a tragedy occurred and everyone agreed that the nation wasn't ready to accept Assassins with a warm heart. They postponed the production until 2003 and luckily, all the actors stayed on board. The show opened at Studio 54 to amazing reviews and the limited engagement run was extended twice. It walked away with 5 Tony awards. The most of that year. I saw the show on June 28 with the original cast. It was electrifying. In late August they came out with a cast recording. It was electrifying. So, if you are going to bye the recording, by the 2003 recording with the song Something Just Broke on it. It also includes Another National Anthem, which was recently featured on this story. ASSASSINS KICKS ASS! On with the show! ...xX
The halls of Langfield Rehab center are a drab white, nurses, wearing white, patrol the hall and on the third floor, in room 5, a nurse knocked timidly on the door. The women who was injecting something into herself slipping the needle under the pillow. The nurse walked in with a cream colored file.
"Ms. Allen, are you ok?" The nurse said, looking at Ms. Allen. Her veins in her arms where puffed out and she was sweating profusely. There was a knock on the door.
"Come in" The nurse chimed. A man, wearing two Rolex's on one arm saddled in, he was carrying a plastic bag, and in it was a red and yellow pill.
"What?" the nurse asked, Ms. Allen was howling in a feverish rage.
"I'm from Doctor Mortimer; this is a pill that she most take immediately." The man said, dropping the baggy into the nurse's hand. The nurse nodded and the man left. The nurse felt Ms. Allen's head, it was drenched. She went to the PA and pushed the button gently,
"Jeanine, you better come in, now!" the nurse sounded worried. Seconds later Jeanine rushed in and bombarded the nurse with questions,
"Is she breathing, sweating, talking, yelling..." Ms. Allen screamed, lifting her back off the plain white bed.
Jeanine ran over to take pulse and temperature.
"Her fever is breaking, 102. Her pulse is rapid, rearrange the pillows Carla!" Jeanine shouted over the screams. Carla ran to the pillow and stuck her hand under it, she yelped.
"Jesus Christ!"
"What? What is it!?" Jeanine asked. Carla pulled out a syringe about half full of heroine.
"She snuck some in with her," Carla said solemnly to Jeanine. Then, Ms. Allen spoke, more of screeched.
"I jumped OOOOVER the moon!" She screeched.
"WHAT?" the nurses chimed in.
"And I was walking down a tunnel, filled with warm light! A-EEE!" she screeched.
"Her fever's getting worse, her pulse is quickening"
"And there, near the light, there was Summa's HUSBAND! And he had a cell phone and he said, "KILL THE BITCH WOMAN! A-EEEEEEEEEEE!" she screeched.
"What is she saying!?" Carla pleaded.
"And Summa's husband, he had two Rolex's, on one arm! And he looked fine, mm-mm! And then...And then...And then..." she slowed down and screamed, "I JUMPED OOOOOVER THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! A-EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" She collapsed onto her bed. Carla got the pill,
"The man told me to give this too her, doctors order!" Jeanine nodded and put the pill in water and force fed it to Ms. Allen, who kept on screaming,
"I'M NOT DRINKING ANY O YOUR FUCKING 'CYNIDE!"
Finally, Ms. Allen chugged it down and slumped into her bed, but not before gargling up masses of blood. She lay, hunched over; eye's rolled into the back of her head. Every so often blood would choke out of her eyes, ears, or mouth. Carla and Jeanine looked at Ms. Allen. Finally, Carla spoke.
"Should I report the death?"
Jeanine nodded.
Excerpt from New Jersey Free Press
Yesterday, one, Alicia Allen died in a drug rehab center near Trenton.
No funeral is planned and no family can be reached.
Send regards to Langfield Regab center
Lawrence dropped his glass of tea as he sat at the breakfast table. Immediately he jumped up to brush off the hot, steaming water from his family jewels area. He read, and re-read the article. He shook it off; there were lots of people with the name Alicia Allen, right?
I'll remember it forever...
Nothing has really ended-
Where I was, what I was doing...
Only just been suspended...
Like a flash...
'Cause something just stirred...
And I though...t
And I thought to myself...
I kept thinking...
Something just woke.
Something just spoke,
Something I wish I hadn't heard.
Something bewildering occurred.
Fix it up fast, please!
-Assassins, Something Just Broke
xX... hope you enjoyed! In what other story do you get Broadway history AND fan fiction I ask you! Lol! ...xX
