🎭 Casting 1776 with women and nonbinary performers can't entirely overcome the creakiness in this 1960s musical about the Founding Fathers. | ✍️ Kelly Kleiman
One can imagine what inspired directors Diane Paulus and Jeffrey L. Page to rework this 1960s musical about the Continental Congress. There’s the attraction of doing a piece about the nation’s unification during a period of division, not to mention the appeal of presenting the virtually all-male show with an all-female and nonbinary cast of diverse sizes, shapes, colors, and gender expressions. But the result is an enormous amount of talent and energy lavished on a mediocre work.
The current production, though, is the best thing that ever happened to Sherman Edwards’s music or Peter Stone’s book. Gisela Adisa makes the “obnoxious and disliked” John Adams the worthy hero of the piece, and her interactions with Tieisha Thomas as Abigail are a much more satisfying version of conjugal love than the Jeffersons’.
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