{"id":1677298,"date":"2022-10-07T05:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1677298"},"modified":"2022-10-07T05:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:08:53","slug":"on-broadway-1776-still-beats-1619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-broadway-1776-still-beats-1619\/","title":{"rendered":"On Broadway, 1776 Still Beats 1619"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fon-broadway-1776-still-beats-1619%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1677298&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>NEW YORK\u2014It might not be politically correct, but Broadway can\u2019t stop making musicals about the Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n<p>As calls to topple statues of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington swelled in the Trump years, theatergoers flocked to <em>Hamilton<\/em>, a contemporary reimagining of the arch-Federalist and his ilk. And now, as a growing number of academics locate America\u2019s founding in 1619, we get a revival of <em>1776<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this isn\u2019t your father\u2019s <em>1776<\/em>. The Roundabout Theater Company\u2019s cast consists entirely of women, nonbinary, and trans actors, most of them black, Hispanic, or Asian. This casting is clearly an attempt to ape <em>Hamilton<\/em>\u2019s success in a more critical way. While <em>Hamilton<\/em> used race-blind casting to make the Founders appealing to a contemporary audience, <em>1776<\/em> does so in an attempt to highlight the alleged privilege and hypocrisy of America\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n<p>By that standard, the show is a failure. Rather than lampoon the show\u2019s bicentennial pride, the remarkably talented cast reinvigorates the classic score and unleashes the humor at the heart of Peter Stone\u2019s book. And far from exposing some kind of nefarious hypocrisy, the race- and gender-blind casting only serves to emphasize the enduring relevance\u2014and universal importance\u2014of the American Founding and the freedoms it secured.<\/p>\n<p><em>1776<\/em> follows John Adams (Crystal Lucas-Perry) as he lobbies his colleagues in the Second Continental Congress to declare independence from Great Britain. Personal foibles and political squabbles emerge as Adams clashes with Pennsylvania delegate John Dickinson (three-time Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello) alongside Benjamin Franklin (Patrena Murray) and Thomas Jefferson, played in this production by a very pregnant Elizabeth A. Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Davis\u2019s pregnancy, like the rest of the cast\u2019s gender, doesn\u2019t really matter to the show. Because musicals always require a suspension of disbelief, the unorthodox casting is far less shocking than it would be in a film. Adams may not have been a black woman, but he also didn\u2019t tap dance at Independence Hall. Obvious political posturing aside, the all-female cast really only matters because the show was written for male voices.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the show\u2019s strongest songs, like &#8220;Sit Down, John&#8221; and &#8220;But Mr. Adams,&#8221; fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014It might not be politically correct, but Broadway can\u2019t stop making musicals about the Founding Fathers.<br \/>\nThe post On Broadway, 1776 Still Beats 1619 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":1677303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1677303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}