If you’re going to do '1776,' you couldn’t do it better. Read frankie_jay_tho's review of the new revival
agnostic burned out on the whole American experiment, you’d be forgiven for side-eyeing a less revolutionary Revolution musical. InYou’ll probably side-eye harder the more you learn about the Roundabout Theatre Company’s new revival, co-directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. Just as “sexy” became shorthand for Daniel Fish’s 2019 Rodgers and Hammerstein reimagining, this production is likely to be glossed as “woke.
is also the problem with the founding of America: It’s actually a tale about slavery, and when told truthfully, it’s a terrible story. To its credit,ever did; the whole second act turns on the issue. Buta man who recorded children as financial assets, one who believed in whipping 10-year-olds to increase their productivity as blacksmiths
— as a likable hero. The show’s book is oddly fixated on his sex life, presenting him as a generous lover and committed wife guy with nary a hint of Sally Hemings. Page and Paulus complicate this as best they can: This production’s Jefferson is visibly pregnant for some reason, and Elizabeth A. Davis plays him with creepy remoteness.
Intentionally so, I think. But intention takes you only so far. Afterward, when the lights went up for intermission, I overheard a tween girl exclaim, “That was an amazing number!” Her father replied, “She has a great voice.” Both of those things were true.
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