Characters
Fictional:
- The Proprietor: gun salesman who provides the characters with their weapons at the beginning of the show
- The Balladeer: narrator who provides the stories of the assassins
- Ensemble: crowd members, chorus, etc.
Historical:
- John Wilkes Booth: assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
- David Herold: accomplice of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
- Charles Guiteau: assassin of President James Garfield
- President James Garfield: twentieth President of the United States
- James Blaine: Secretary of State who received a deluge of letters from Charles Guiteau
- Leon Czolgosz: assassin of President William McKinley
- Emma Goldman: anarchist known for her political activism who also interacted several times with Leon Czolgosz
- Giuseppe Zangara: attempted assassin of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Lee Harvey Oswald: assassin of President John F. Kennedy
- Samuel Byck: attempted assassin of President Richard Nixon
- John Hinckley: attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan
- Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme: attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford
- Sara Jane Moore: attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford
- President Gerald Ford: thirty-eighth President of the United States
- Billy: Sara Jane Moore's son
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