#1776 broadway

[fetchmearum420]

My favorite things in 1776:

Favorite character: John Hancock

Favorite song: Cool, Cool Considerate Men

Favorite scene: Dickinson and Adams’s fight

Favorite actor: David Ford

Favorite costume: all of Hancock’s

Favorite line: CHRIST IT’S HOT!

Favorite lyric: That is true, he annoys me quite a lot. But still I’d rather trot, to Mr Adams new gavotte.

Favorite delegation: Delaware. They’re fucking hilarious.

Favorite villain: Dickinson (I don’t really consider him a villain because he isn’t exactly evil. But he’s kind of a Dick so that counts. And Rutledge is a straight up idiot).

[pinsnotsaltpeter]

Just drove by Adams road. Naturally, that means I've gotta play the entire 1776 soundtrack 😎😂☺️

[here-a-lee-there-a-lee]

Does anyone know what’s up with Martha’s dress/costume??

I know it changed or smth (and I think it did change with the tour of 1776) but I just wanna know why lmao

[curiositymemes]

1776 SENTENCE STARTERS : PART ONE.

taken from the 1972 film adaptation of the 1969 broadway musical. feel free to change wording and pronouns and provide context as necessary. do not add to this list.    

“there you are.”

“didn’t you hear me call you?”

“what do you keep coming up here for?”

“i can just imagine.”

“oh, good god.”

“what in the hell are you waiting for?!”

“sit down, ___.”

“consider yourselves fortunate that you have ____ to abuse, for no sane man/woman/person would tolerate it!”

“will someone shut that man/woman/person up?” / “never!”

“a cataclysmic earthquake, i’d accept with some despair.”

“good god, sir/madam/per, was that fair?”

“nothing’s ever solved.” 

“___, ___, is that you carrying on, ___?”

“oh ___, ___, i have such a desire to knock heads together.” 

“i’m no further along than i was when i first came here.” 

“i know, my dearest, i know.”

“but that’s because you make everything so complicated.”

“and hurry home to me.”

“what else is new?”

“now, have you done as i asked?” / “no, ___, i have not.” / “well, why have you not?!”

“i’m afraid we have a more urgent problem.” 

“don’t smirk at me, you egotist, pay heed to what i say.”

“i am, as i ever was, yours.”

“where in hell are you?!”

“___, i see you hiding behind that tree, it won’t do you any good!”

“i have been looking everywhere for you, where in god’s name have you been?!”

“it stinks.” / “as ever, the soul of tact.”

“where were you last night when i needed you?” 

“i have more to do than stand here listening to you quote yourself.” 

“reconciliation, my ass.”

“and if ____ can’t put up with you, nobody can.” 

“you’re getting at something.” / “how can you tell?”

“oh, ____, that’s brilliant. wasn’t that brilliant, ____?” 

“i’ll leave tonight. why, hell, i’ll leave right now, if ya like!”

“what makes you so sure you can do it?”

“forward, ho!”

“that was the most revolting display i have ever witnessed.”

“you and your infernal obsession for deviousness.”

“if you’ll be wanting anything at all…” 

“there won’t be too long to wait.”

“i’m surprised you didn’t know that.”

“___ here is just a lad/lass/kid.”

“you’re too late, ___. once i get them, they’re got.” 

“oh, ___, forgive me, but how can anyone see you if you insist on standing in ___’s shadow?”

“what are you staring at? haven’t you ever seen a great man/woman/person before?” 

“do you have the honor to be dr/mr/mrs/mx ___?” 

“oh, ___, i only wish ___ felt like my big toe all over.” 

“that strutting popinjay was so damn sure of his/her/themself.”

“sweet jesus!”

“you’ve abused the privilege.”

“my god, it’s hot.”

“we are not in touch at the present time.”

“may we hear about the weather?” 

“sadly, i see no way of stopping them at the present time.”

“where’s the fire, can anybody tell?”

“___, i’m back! i’m back, ___!”  / “___, lad/lass/kid, welcome back.”

“is it done?”

“you would, you lousy wart.”

“___ abstains courteously.”

“the people are against it, and i’m for it.” 

“i’m comin’, i’m comin’! hold your damn horses.” / “we’re waiting on you, ___.” / “well, it won’t kill you.” 

“so it’s up to me, huh?”

“well, i’ll tell you.”

“in all my years, i’ve never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about.”

“hell yes! i’m for debating anything.” 

“well, now, you’ve got your way at last, ___.”

“i confess i’m almost relieved.” 

“yes, that’s what he/she/they want. nothing less will satisfy him/her/them.” 

“how is a man/woman/person to sleep?”

“how is a man/woman/person to stay awake?”

“why can’t you acknowledge what already exists?!”

“sit down, you scurvy dog, or i’ll knock you down!”

“i only got two hands!”

“you refuse to understand us.”

“for once in your life, ___, take a chance.”

“i say the time is now. it may never come again.”

“we will more than compensate in spirit.”

“you…. you fribble!” 

“are you calling me a coward?” 

“stop it, stop it!” 

“the enemy’s out there.”

“but he/she/they should go home.”

“a man/woman/person should die in his/her/their own bed.”

“i’m here, ___.” 

“___, do something. think.” / “i’m thinking, but nothing’s coming.”

“excuse me. is this ___?”

“yes, i can see that it must be.”

“we’ve been looking for you everywhere, you see.”

“oh, how splendid. that means we’re not too late!” 

“i regret that i must be the bearer of unhappy tidings.”

“why the long face?” 

“tell me. why did they arrest the little bastard?”

“well, haven’t i made that clear?” / “no.” / “well, i suppose i haven’t.”

“what are you doing?!”

“you’ve sunk us!”

“i can see no other way.”

“oh, for heaven’s sake, let me get through it once.”

“ditto, ditto, et cetera, et cetera.” 

“what in hell goes on in ____?!” 

“they speak very fast and very loud and nobody listens to anybody else with the result that nothing ever gets done.”

“any objections?” / “i have objections. i have lots of objections!” 

“i don’t know, he/she/they had a funny look on his/her/their face.” / “he/she/they always does.”

“i’m obnoxious and disliked, you know that.”

“hell no!” 

“i don’t know a participle from a predicate.” 

“he’s/she’s/they’re obnoxious and disliked, did you know that?” / “i hadn’t heard.”

“leave me alone!” 

“magnificent.”

“life is more than sexual combustibility!” 

“who will make me, ___?” / “i.” / “you?” / “yes.” / “how?” / “by physical force, if necessary.” 

“you’re obnoxious and disliked, that cannot be denied.” 

“oh, ____, you are driving me to homicide!”

“we may see murder yet!”

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[johnradams]

love arguing with people about the upcoming 1776 revival. sorry homie you will never know John Adams like I do. he likes the attention he's getting i promise. he told me so in a dream.

[johnadamsbignaturals]

oh i forgor to say so here but GO SEE THE NEW THE COLOR PURPLE MOVIE.

it was just as good as (if not an enhanced version of the stage production, which i consider the best show i’ve ever seen on broadway to date)

[trashpidgeon48]

[rmstitanics]

1776 (1972) - dir. Peter Hunt

[droughtofapathy]

The Gilded Age's Broadway Divas: Clara Barton (Linda Emond)

Based on the real-life historical figure, Clara Barton spends half of season one drumming up money to get her field hospital operational. Presumably she is off doing important work during season two while all the ladies piddle, twiddle, and resolve about the opera.

I will be honest. I know Linda Emond primarily for her straight play work, so I was wholly unfamiliar with her singing until making this series. And now that I'm listening to it, I'm a little in love. As is often the case for me. But I digress.

Linda Emond is a three-time Tony nominee for her work in Death of a Salesman (Linda Loman), Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider), and Life (x) 3 (Inez). The 2014 Cabaret revival did not receive a cast album (probably owing to Alan Cumming reprising his role) so there is no recording of Linda singing "So What?" and I'm furious about it.

#1: "Yours, Yours, Yours," & "Compliments," 1776 (1997)

Linda Emond made her Broadway debut as Abigail Adams in the 1997 revival of 1776. As one of two female characters in the show, Abigail appears sporadically, writing letters to her husband and generally being an encouraging wife to this founding father. Eventually, Linda was replaced by Carolee Carmello (who, according to a Facebook comment, couldn't even get an audition for Gilded Age, and that's a crime unto itself).

Another Gilded Age actress who has placed Abigail Adams, though not in 1776, is Donna Murphy, who voiced this character on the Liberty Kids show we all know and love.

#2: "He Always Comes Homes to Me," John Kander – Hidden Treasures, 1950-2015 (2015)

I need you to understand what a deep cut this is. The Kander Hidden Treasures album features nearly fifty tracks, most consisting of demos with Kander himself laying down the songs. It is a marvel of a CD set for those of us who love the theatre, and includes a 64-page booklet with detailed notes about each song. In it, a select few songs have been newly recorded. Linda Emond appears on one from a show called All About Us.

And now I need to go on a tangent about this show. A musical based on Thorton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, it held its first workshop in 1996 with Debra Monk (hello, Miss Armstrong) and Bernadette Peters in the cast, and later moved to staging in 1999 with Linda Emond, and Bebe Neuwirth as Sabina (a role originated in the play by Tallulah Bankhead). However, shortly before it opened, Bebe was fired and replaced by Sherie Rene Scott. I have no details about why or how or what they were thinking, but back in those days, people only saw her as the "frigid" Lilith on Cheers, and I need to stop before poor Linda Emond's post becomes just a five paragraph tirade in defense of Bebe Neuwirth.

At any rate, the musical was abandoned in 2004 following Fred Ebb's death, and though it had a brief resurgence in 2007 with Eartha Kitt and Karen Ziemba, it has since largely disappeared. But thanks to this recording, we have at least some of the music.

LINK TO MASTERPOST

[fetchmearum420]

The difference 😭

So for context, I think we all know by now about Howard Da Silva and his temper issues behind the scenes, how he would scream at everybody nearly every day. He was supposed to DIRECT 1776, but then Hunt was brought in and Da Silva didn’t like that. Bill Daniels was pretty much the only one who could calm him down and was fine with him because they had worked together before 1776 and they were friends. But no one else was his friend until Betty Buckley got him to open up but that’s a whole different story.

So the photo on the left is David Ford and Bill Daniels, and they both seem happy and in a good mood judging by their smirking. And on the right is Howard Da Silva and David Ford and David does not look very thrilled to be next to him. He looks almost sad I guess and maybe a little anxious incase Howard decides to blow up or something.

I don’t think for these particular photos, anyone was in character because if you know the show you know that No one is smiling during the process of signing the declaration. So in the photo of the left, I think they’re joking around or something and in the photo on the right, David Ford is afraid to say anything incase Da Silva starts lunging at him or something. It’s really sad that whole situation. But thankfully Da Silva changed and he was a trooper for the most part during the filming of the movie.

I should also mention that during out of town in Washington DC, Da Silva’s big song “Increase and Multiply” was cut, and he was FURIOUS, so he quit the show temporarily and they brought in Rex Everhart, who was a huge help and would end up being with the show for years. Obviously we all know that he had to take over for Da Silva for the first months on broadway because of his heart attack. So thank goodness they got him during DC.

But it’s clear by these two photos that David Ford wasn’t happy with Da Silva at first. I don’t blame him.

[pinsnotsaltpeter]

I just found the real footage of what the Adams/Dickinson cane fight looked like (including how most of Congress casually watched)

[supercantaloupe]

genuinely except for maybe a passing interest in seeing camelot (which is closing too soon for me to do anything about anyway) i haven't wanted to actually Go To New York to see smth on broadway since the music man. i am going to do everything in my power however to go see this cabaret tho

[curiositymemes]

1776 SENTENCE STARTERS : PART TWO.

taken from the 1972 film adaptation of the 1969 broadway musical. feel free to change wording and pronouns and provide context as necessary. do not add to this list.    

“damn the man/woman/person.” / “god damn the man/woman/person.” 

“what is that racket?” / “latest thing from europe, ___. it’s called music.”

“well, you’ve had a whole week, man. is it done?”

“disgusting.”

“well, cheer up, ___. get out of the dumps. it’ll come out all right, i assure you.” 

“now, get back to work.”

“hello! and whose little girl/boy/child are you?”

“what makes you think so?”

“she/he/they is your wife/husband/partner, isn’t she/he/they?” / “well of course, she/he/they is. look at the way they fit.”

“come along, ___.”

“you don’t mean to say that…”

“i mean, they’re not going to…” / “in the middle of the afternoon?” 

“incredible!”

“i’m very lonely, ___.” 

“oh, now, don’t be unreasonable, ___.”

“oh, they were fondly intended!”

“well, now there you have me, ___.”

“please. come to ___. please come.” 

“I thank you for that.”

“___, how goes it with you?”

“do you still smell of vanilla and spring air?” 

“what was there, ___, still is there, ___.”

“i’ve forgotten the feel of your hand.”

“til then, ‘til then.”

“go ahead.” / “me?” / “your voice is more piercing.” 

“good morrow, ___, good morrow!”

“is it the habit in ___ to shout at ladies/gentlemen/people from the street?” / “and for men/women/people of your age, it is not only unseemly, it is unsightly!” 

“please! i know your name(s) very well, but…”

“it’s of no matter. your thoughts were well-taken elsewhere.”

“well, then shall we start over again?”

“won’t you join us?” 

“i feel an absolute fool.”

“well, what will people think?”

“___ did this, and ___ did that, and ___ did some other damned thing.” 

“tell us about yourself. we’ve heard precious little.”

“oh, ___, you can dance!”

“___, i want you to see some cards i’ve had printed up.”

“ought to save everybody here a lot of time and effort.” 

“dear sir/madam/per, you are, without any doubt, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a thief, a scoundrel, and a mean, dirty, stinking, sniveling, sneaking, pimping, pocket-picking, thrice double-damned no-good son of a bitch.” 

“what do you think?” / “i’ll take a dozen right now.”

“all right, ___, enough socializing. there’s work to be done.” 

“he/she/they never complained, but i could see the poor man/woman/thing was suffering terrible.” 

“one foot in front of the other!”

“i’ll take a crack at old vacant-face.” 

“how in hell did you ever make a decision?”

“you clot!”

“you come into this world screaming ‘no’ and you’re determined to leave it the same way, you slimy worm!”

“the whole world is waiting!”

“leave me alone, ___, you’re wasting your time!” 

“that man/woman/person would depress a hyena.”

“why not ask them yourself? they ought to be here any minute.”

“would you or wouldn’t you?”

“___, are you mad?”

“it sounds lively as hell up there.” 

“like hell i am.”

“what for?”

“do you see what i see?”

“the sun is in the sky, a breeze is blowing by.”

“why should we risk losing?”

“you don’t even like him/her/them.” / “that is true, he/she/they annoys me quite a lot.” 

“why? for personal glory? for a place in history?”

“most men/women/people with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.”

“that is why they will follow us.”

“how’d you like to try and borrow a dollar from one of them?”

“here, son/sweetie/kid. there you go.” 

“it’s too damn hot to work.”

“what’s it like out there?” / “you probably know more than me.”

“this is the last place to find out what’s going on.”

“what’s that got to do with it?”

“now, where’s that?”

“come looking for me.”

“by the red maple tree.”

“is that you i’m hearing?”

“it was a slaughter. a slaughter!”

“how far have they gotten?”

“nothing to fear.”

“it’s a masterpiece.”

“i wish i felt that way.” 

“if i was ever sure of anything, i’m sure of that.” 

“now, surely this was an oversight.”

“i had hoped that the work would speak for itself.”

“this is a revolution, damn it! we’re going to have to offend somebody!” 

“you’ll give yourself an attack of apoplexy if you’re not careful.”

“have you heard?” / “i heard.”

“courage, ___.”

“it won’t last much longer.”

“these are dangerous times.”

“be careful, ___.”

“we might as well say so.”

“i can’t quite make out what it is you’re talking about.”

“why didn’t you say so?”

“economy. always economy.”

“there’s more to this than a filthy purse string, ___.”

“it’s an offense against man and god/nature.”

“for the love of god, ___, please.”

“you’ll have to forgive them, ___.”

“we’re wasting time.”

“what good will it do?”

“if there’s anything i can do for you there, let me know.”

“we have no choice, ___.”

“___, what are you saying?”

“you forget yourself, sir/madam/per.”

“what’s happened to me?”

“___, what am i going to do?”

“you don’t usually ask my advice.” / “yes, well, there doesn’t appear to be anyone else right now.” 

“what is it?”

“oh, ___. has it been any kind of a life for you?” / “i never asked for more.”

“well, i have always been dissatisfied, i know that. but lately, i find that i reek of discontentment.”

“it fills my throat and it floods my brain.”

“sometimes i fear there is no longer a dream, only the discontentment.” 

“can you really know so little about yourself?”

“have you forgotten what you used to say to me? i haven’t.”

“commitment, ___. commitment.”

“do you remember?” / “yes, i remember.”

“all for you, ___.”

“didn’t you hear a word i said before?” / “oh, never mind about that.”

“now, here’s what i want you to do.” / “___, i’m not even speaking to you.” 

“you know where i stand.”

“i’ll do whatever you say.”

“is anybody there?”

“does anybody care?”

“i’m sorry if i startled you.”

“i couldn’t sleep.”

“you must believe that i will do what i promised to do.”

“what is it you want, ___?” 

“what else is there to do?”

“little good may it do you.”

“the question is clear.” / “most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.” 

“___, you’re keeping everybody waiting.”

“i just didn’t bargain for that.” 

“goodbye, ___.”

“i happen to be a harvard graduate, __.”

“and how it shall end, god only/who knows.”

“all right, step right up.”

“don’t miss your chance to commit treason.”

“to hell with ___.”

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