
Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards
Book by Peter Stone
We open our ninth season this fall with the Tony-Winning musical about the birth of our nation. Before there was Hamilton – there was 1776! As this year’s presidential election nears, we take a look back to the room where it happened 240 years ago in Philadelphia, when our forefathers fought for freedom and signed the Declaration of Independence. To be newly imagined with a fresh modern spin, see how much – or how little – politics and our politicians have changed since the time of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. A history lesson and a night of pure entertainment, 1776 is a “brilliant and remarkably moving piece of theatrical art”. (New York Post)