Join us as we celebrate the founding of America in the Tony Award-winning 1776!
Watch the sparks fly as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin fight for our
freedom and draft the Declaration of Independence before your very eyes. You may
know how this story turns out, but you’ll still be on the edge of your seat!
A riveting musical filled with history, humor and romance!
MTW Artistic Director/Producer, Steven Glaudini reprises his Ovation Award-winning turn as John Adams, featuring Broadway veteran Steve Vinovich as Benjamin Franklin, MTW favorites John Bisom as Thomas Jefferson and Tami Tappan Damiano as Abigail Adams, Broadway veteran Andy Umberger as John Dickinson, and Ovation Award-winner and MTW favorite Robert J. Townsend as Edward Rutledge. With Davis Gaines, star of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, as Richard Henry Lee.
"(1776) will put a jolt into your pride and patriotism"
Leisure World News (click here for the full review)
MTW Audiences have joined the REVOLUTION!
"Makes you want to stand up and cheer. Most excellent!"
Bev T., Subscriber
"A terrific production of a splendid and timely musical. We all know how the story turns out, but this production captured the tremendous difficulty of the task and unlikelihood of American independency."
Bethany P., Single Ticket Buyer
"The most honest, compassionate performances. This production is truly a gift to the theater community"
Single Ticket Buyer
"Interesting and fabulous!"
Jan P., Single Ticket Buyer
WHAT DID THE CRITICS THINK OF THE ORIGINAL 1969 PRODUCTION?
Clive Barnes of the New York Times wrote, "On the face of it, few historical incidents seem more unlikely to spawn a Broadway musical than that solemn moment in the history of mankind, the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Yet 1776... most handsomely demonstrated that people who merely go 'on the face of it' are occasionally outrageously wrong....1776 is a most striking, most gripping musical. I recommend it without reservation. It makes even an Englishman's heart beat faster... the characters are most unusually full... for Mr. Stone's book is literate, urbane and...very amusing...This is a beautiful mixture of pride, ambition, an almost priggish sense of justice."
John Chapman of the New York Daily News penned, "This is by no means a historical tract or a sermon on the birth of this nation. It is warm with a life of its own; it is funny, it is moving... Often, I sat enchanted in my seat... The songs and lyrics are, as I have indicated, remarkably original."
The New York Post noted, "In this cynical age, it requires courage as well as enterprise to do a musical play that simply deals with the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. And 1776... makes no attempt to be satirical or wander off into modern bypaths. But the rewards of this confidence reposed in the bold conception were abundant. The result is a brilliant and remarkably moving work of theatrical art."
WHAT WILL YOU THINK?
WILL YOU VOTE YEA OR NAY?
THE FINAL DECISION IS UP TO YOU.
Join us for this truly revolutionary musical.
You'll have a new appreciation for the faces on our currency.
