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1776 (musical)
''1776'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. The story is based on the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It dramatizes the efforts of John Adams to persuade his colleagues to vote for American independence and to sign the document.
It premiered on Broadway in 1969, earning warm reviews, and ran for 1,217 performances. The production was nominated for five Tony Awards and won three, including the Tony Award for Best Musical. In 1972 it was made into ''a film adaptation''. It was revived on Broadway in 1997.
==History==
In 1926, Rodgers and Hart had written a musical about the American Revolution, called ''Dearest Enemy''.〔Green, Stanley. "(''Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre'' ), pp. 373–74. Jefferson, N.C.: Da Capo Press, 1980. ISBN 0-306-80113-2〕 Additionally, in 1950, a musical about the Revolution had been presented on Broadway, titled ''Arms and the Girl'', with music by Morton Gould, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and a book by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, and Rouben Mamoulian, the show's director. 〔http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3123/Arms-and-the-Girl〕
Sherman Edwards, a writer of pop songs with several top ten hits in the late fifties and early sixties, spent several years developing lyrics and libretto for a musical based on the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Edwards recounted that, "I wanted to show (founding fathers ) at their outermost limits. These men were the cream of their colonies... They disagreed and fought with each other. But they understood commitment, and though they fought, they fought affirmatively."〔Kantor and Maslon, pp. 328-49〕 Producer Stuart Ostrow recommended that librettist Peter Stone collaborate with Edwards on the book of the musical. Stone recalled, The minute you heard (Down, John" ), you knew what the whole show was.... You knew immediately that John Adams and the others were not going to be treated as gods, or cardboard characters, chopping down cherry trees and flying kites with strings and keys on them. It had this very affectionate familiarity; it wasn't reverential.〔 Adams, the outspoken delegate from Massachusetts, was chosen as the central character, and his quest to persuade all thirteen colonies to vote for independence became the central conflict. Stone confined nearly all of the action to Independence Hall and the debate among the delegates, featuring only two female characters, Abigail Adams and Martha Jefferson, in the entire musical.〔Kantor and Maslon, pp. 329〕〔Bloom and Vlastnik, pp. 285〕 After tryouts in New Haven and Washington, the show opened on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on March 16, 1969. Peter Hunt, previously known as a lighting designer, directed.〔(2008 interview of Hunt )〕
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