“Not your father’s “1776,” you might say, in many senses of that cliché. But instead a newly centered production with the capacity to challenge, a vital attribute of our shared democracy,” writes Tribune critic ChrisJonesTrib.
It has been greatly improved for the road. Very strikingly so.Intentionally, the show was cast with entirely female, nonbinary or trans actors, a majority of whom were persons of color. Given the topic, of course, this invited comparison with “Hamilton,” a show with a very masculine energy that this “1776” seemed implicitly to be critiquing, or at least offering a contrasting P.O.V.
Liz Mikel as Benjamin Franklin, Nancy Anderson as Thomas Jefferson and Gisela Adisa as John Adams in the tour of"1776." Happily, this touring cast , now has pulled all of that back. They appear more comfortable with each other, show more affection for their characters and for material thatprogressive, especially when it came to the shameful slavery compromise.
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