Theater and the Law: Assassins - Representing Unpopular Clients and Causes - October 20, 2024 - CLE 3.0 hours

Theater and the Law: Assassins 

Representing Unpopular Clients and Causes

In-Person ONLY - Sunday, October 20, 2024 

Seminar Description: Theater & the Law: Assassins offers a compelling blend of legal education and live performance, featuring a production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins by the Olathe Civic Theatre Association. Following the show, a panel led by UMKC Professor Sean O'Brien will delve into the ethical complexities of representing clients or causes that are unpopular. Drawing from the provocative themes of the musical, the discussion will examine the crucial role of lawyers in ensuring fair representation, even when the cause or client challenges societal norms. This seminar provides an insightful exploration of the intersection between law, ethics, and public opinion.

Musical Description: A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation's culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America's four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.
Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical "revusical" that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.

Fees:

$200 CLE credit attendees

$20 for Students and Non-credit guests

*Registration includes performance, CLE discussion, and reception

CLE Credit:

MO 3.0 hours; KS pending

Attendees must attend presentation to receive CLE credit for Musical performance.